Challenges of International Responsibility System in Confronting with Non-state Armed Groups

Zamani, Sayed Ghasem; Hosseinabadi, Maryam

doi:10.48300/jlr.2023.414904.2436

Challenges of International Responsibility System in Confronting with Non-state Armed Groups

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Sayed Ghasem Zamani ¹

Maryam Hosseinabadi ²

¹ Professor, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

² PhD student, public international law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

10.48300/jlr.2023.414904.2436

Abstract

The role of non-state armed groups in armed conflicts against each other or states has changed into an issue threatening international peace and security in the last decades. In this regard, although it is widely accepted that international humanitarian law obliges non-state armed groups, the effect of violating these groups` obligations is less clear in terms of secondary rules. In this article, with a descriptive-analytical method, the status of non-state armed groups in the draft articles on responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts is clarified. While evaluating the answer of international law to the issue of individual and collective international criminal responsibility of the mentioned groups, the article analyses the possible international responsibility of non- state armed groups with an emphasis on the draft articles on responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts as a model.
Keywords: Non-state Armed Groups, International Responsibility, International Humanitarian law, International Criminal Law, Compensation

Keywords

Non-state Armed Groups

International Responsibility

International Humanitarian law

International Criminal Law

Compensation