Protection of Civilians in Crisis: Geneva Conventions at 75

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Lidén, Kristoffer (2024) Protection of Civilians in Crisis: Geneva Conventions at 75, Global Policy. 20 November.

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With the devastating news from Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan among other wars, we witness a crisis of the international regime for protecting civilians in armed conflict. However, this is not a total collapse but a return to the troubling world that the legal protections for civilians in the 1949 Geneva Conventions were made for.

Topic
Humanitarianism

Authors

Kristoffer Lidén

Kristoffer Lidén

Research Director

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