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Book Symposium “Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict”: When NIACs end: Support for Derejko’s functional approach
The Tadic formulation for the existence of a non-international armed conflict is two-fold. First, the notion of organisation, which requires the military wing of a non-state actor, which is party to a conflict, to meet the demand to display a minimum degree of organisation. Second, the notion of intensity, which asserts that the severity of the fighting between parties to the conflict must equate to protracted armed violence. Both …
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Sama is currently the News Roundup Editor (2026) for the Armed Groups and International Law blog. She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), specializing in Swiss Law and International Law. Her thesis examined the role of the United Nations Security Council in the protection of civilians in Syria under international humanitarian law. Sama currently works with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and is a member of the Swiss Society of International Law (SSDI) and the International Law Association (ILA).
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