

Italy, Use of force against ambulances in Iraq ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts in 2015 Georgia/Russia, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in South Ossetia (Para. Georgia/Russia, Human Rights Watch’s Report on the Conflict in South Ossetia

United States, Status and Treatment of Detainees Held in Guantanamo Naval Base ( Parts I. ICJ, Democratic Republic of the Congo/Uganda, Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo ( Paras. 87-162)Ĭase Study, Armed Conflicts in the Great Lakes Region (Part 3. A.)Ĭase Study, Armed Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (26) More details on how each onset location was coded is available in the separate Coding Decision documents.Israel, Applicability of the Fourth Convention to Occupied Territories Other sources included various English-language newspapers, books, reports, research articles, and the UCDP conflict database. The main source was Keesing's Record of World Events. Subsequently, we searched various sources to identify the combat event(s) on that day related to the conflict. The date for this event was found in the UCDP conflict database.

The onset location is defined as the place of the combat event which made the conflict first reach the threshold of 25 annual battle-related deaths. An armed conflict is defined by UCDP-PRIO as a contested incompatibility that concerns government and/or territory where the use of armed force between two parties, of which at least one is the government of a state, results in at least 25 battle-related deaths in one calendar year. The scope is internal armed conflicts in the UCDP-PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset (v. The Location of Armed Conflict Onset Dataset provides information about where within a country internal armed conflicts erupt.
