Legitimate Targets
What is the Applicable Legal Framework Governing the Use of Force in Rio de Janeiro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Conor Foley (0000-0002-2891-6905, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Stability International Journal of Security and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-2627 • E-ISSN: 2165-2627 |
| Publisher | Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5334/sta.826 |
| OpenAlex | W4312790024 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The belief that the favelas of Rio de Janeiro constitute a ‘war zone’ is widely held in Brazilian society. The intensity of the violence and the level of organization of some of the armed actors are comparable to those in officially recognized non-international armed conflicts elsewhere in the world. As conflicts are increasingly fought in situations where it is challenging to distinguish civilians from combatants, the binary divisions of international law are failing to address the contemporary experience of violence in what has been termed the ‘new wars’. There is an emerging agreement in international jurisprudence and state practice that the provisions of international human rights law and international humanitarian law must be concurrently applied in officially recognised ‘war zones’. This article argues that this analysis could also be used in other situations of violence, such as Rio de Janeiro, but the ‘armed conflict’ rhetoric risks conferring legitimacy of the use of lethal force between its parties
Armed conflict · Human rights · International humanitarian law · International law · Jurisprudence · Law of war · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Use of force · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |