Project

Third-State assistance to parties to a non-international armed conflict: what role for the non-intervention principle?

Code

3G001615

Duration

01 January 2015 → 31 December 2020

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Tom Ruys

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology
Social sciences
- Law
- Other social sciences

Keywords

international law intervention non-international armed conflict jus ad bellum neutrality jus in bello third-state assistance

Project description

Pursuant to the ‘non-intervention principle’, States must refrain from interfering in civil strife. Considerable confusion nonetheless exists over the principle’s precise scope. The project aims at analysing customary practice in order to define the scope of the principle in the context of non-international armed conflicts, and to establish whether it treats assistance to armed groups differently from assistance to the legal government.