%0 Journal Article
%T Legalization of Civil Wars: The Legal Institutionalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts
%A Kenneth £¿hlenschl£¿ger Buhl
%J Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
%D 2009
%I European Centre for Minority Issues
%X This article is concerned with the legal challenges of regulating civil wars in international humanitarian law. Civil war is not a term used in international law; it falls however, withing the context of the legal term 'armed conflicts not of an international character', although the shorter 'non-international armed conflict' is used here.
%K civil wars
%K international humanitarian law
%U http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2009/1-2009-Buhl.pdf