معاييرُ تكييفِ النزاعاتِ المسلحةِ في القانون الدّولي الإنساني

Criteria for the adaptation of armed conflicts in international humanitarian law

International humanitarian law, although aimed at reducing the effects of armed conflicts but does not contain a full definition of those cases falling within the scope of its physical application, While the relevant conventions refer to different types of armed conflict and provides an overview of the legal outline of this multifaceted concept, However, we note that these instruments do not provide sufficiently precise criteria for unequivocally determining the content of those categories.
For international humanitarian law to begin to apply, there must be legal conduct to declare the existence of a state of armed conflict, which is called legal adaptation. and, thus, the entry into force of the relevant rules, thereby making international humanitarian law binding on parties fighting and adapting armed conflicts one of the contemporary legal challenges facing international humanitarian law workers, So we tried to highlight the criteria for adapting armed conflicts in international humanitarian law by publicizing these norms and their legal basis in chapter I. and then in chapter II of this study we addressed the requirements of the criteria for the adaptation of armed conflicts, Furthermore, chapter III devotes to the application by international criminal tribunals of the criteria for the adaptation of armed conflicts and, accordingly, we have reached a number of conclusions and recommendations. It must be noted that the challenges we have addressed in this thesis are not exhaustive, But we have tried to highlight the criteria for adapting armed conflicts to their aftermath from the pressing issues of adapting to today’s armed conflicts.It was to be hoped that at least the bulk of the proposed analysis would be accepted by the bodies dealing with the adaptation of armed conflicts and would therefore help to answer questions in the area of adaptation to armed conflicts and to bridge the gap between discourse and practice in international humanitarian law.