Abstract The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum’s country guidance (CG) reflects international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses Agency’s on Iraq as a case study through lens objectivity and relevance. highlights disproportionate reliance military State-centric sources which adopt traditional narrow concept security grounded in quantitative ...

Wars and conflicts have constituted major events throughout history. Despite their importance, the general public typically learns about such events only indirectly, through the lens of news media, which necessarily select and distort events before relaying them to readers. Quantifying these processes is important, as they are fundamental to how we see the world, but the task is difficult, as i...

The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts in the twenty-first century. Both academics and practitioners have argued that today’s wars tend to be asymmetric conflicts between states and nonstate actors, whereas the law of armed conflict was made with a view to symmetrical interstate war. This article challenges that notion. T law of armed...

The article E-learning platform Intercultural education in era of distance - new challenges for teachers deals with the issues related to development intercultural education, faced by Covid-119 pandemic, socio-economic changes and armed conflicts world. author presents current future educators on example an international project aimed at creating tools methods field teaching education.

Colombia’s physical and socio-political landscape—a territory fragmented by mountain ranges and tropical forests, deficient infrastructure, lack of national integration, and the tradition of armed revolts against the central authorities—has provided fertile ground for guerrillas. Guerrilla warfare shading into politicized banditry has been, in fact, the most prevalent form of armed activity in ...