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Un definition armed conflict11/15/2023 ![]() Furthermore, and particularly in conflicts with an element of ethnic or religious hatred, the affected civilians tend not to be the incidental victims of these new irregular forces they are their principal object.Ĥ. The decline of inter-State warfare waged by regular armies has been matched by a rise in intra-State warfare waged by irregular forces. To some extent, this can be explained by changes in the nature of conflict. The victims of today’s atrocious conflicts are not merely anonymous, but literally countless. Whereas armies count their losses, there is no agency mandated to keep a tally of civilians killed. Relief agencies rightly devote their resources to helping the living rather than counting the dead. I say “conventional” because the truth is that no one really knows. It is now conventional to say that, in recent decades, the proportion of war victims who are civilians has leaped dramatically, to an estimated 75 per cent, and in some cases even more. The context is therefore clear: as internal armed conflicts proliferate, civilians have become the principal victims.
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