Introduction
This introductory chapter sets out the basis of the issue explored in the text – namely, why the law relating to armed conflicts makes the distinction between participants in international armed conflicts and those in non-international armed conflicts. This chapter provides overviews of each chapter of the book, and includes explanatory notes on methodology and terminology employed in the text
Keywords: international humanitarian law, armed conflict, prisoners of war, combatants, internal armed conflict
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .