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Towards a Code of Conduct for Internal Armed Conflicts: Current Efforts, Problems, and Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Dieter Fleck
Dieter Fleck*
Affiliation:
International Agreements and Policy, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany; International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo; San Remo Research Project on Humanitarian Protection in Non-International Armed Conflicts
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Humanitarian Law on the Conflict in Afghanistan
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 96 , 2002 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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