This recognises guerrilla groups as actors in an armed conflict, and offers reduced prison sentences if they demobilise.
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The talks aim to end five decades of an armed conflict that has killed an estimated 600, 000 people in Colombia.
The international community's refusal to recognize an armed conflict in Syria can only be characterized as not seeing the forest for the trees.
The United Nations Commission and other experts may fear that acknowledging an armed conflict in Syria will give both sides free rein to use military force.
The latest ELN attack comes as Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), holds peace talks with the government, aimed at ending five decades of an armed conflict that has killed an estimated 600, 000 people.
The third step would be the signing of an agreement to "put an end to armed conflict", Mr de la Calle said, adding that the final agreement would be "put to the public".
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Referring to the ELN, Mr Santos said that if the group was serious about an end to the armed conflict, it too could be part of peace talks.
Targeting civilians in armed conflict is an intentional act which is a crime under international law.
In addition it seeks to end the armed conflict and create an anti-narcotic strategy.
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The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education, warned that armed conflict was robbing 28 million children of an education.
The CIVCAS Manual moves beyond a strict law of armed conflict mindset, to an approach that integrates civilian casualty mitigation principles across the spectrum of routine and pre-deployment training, doctrine and education.
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"It would make an immense contribution to confidence-building if the public could feel assured that every organisation that was involved in the Northern Ireland conflict accepts that a return to an armed campaign is not an option, " he said.
In fact, if IC has any real hidden agenda it is less likely about wanting to draw the U.S. into armed conflict in Africa and more likely to be an advertising relationship with Facebook.
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An escalation of the conflict may lead to the involvement of Afghan armed groups, expanding it quantitatively and qualitatively.
It also noted that women and girls "continued to suffer enormously from the effects of armed conflict", with 301 killed and 563 injured - an increase of 20%.
For nearly two weeks, Libya has been gripped by fear of new armed conflict after militias stormed and surrounded government buildings in Tripoli, blocking access to ministries in an attempt to push parliament to pass a contentious law that would prevent members of Moammar Gadhafi's regime from serving in senior government posts.
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