International humanitarian treaty law, however, while highly detailed as regards international armed conflicts, is considerably less developed in relation to non-international armed conflicts.

Volume I of the study contains 161 rules assessed to be of customary status, most of them applicable in both international and non-international armed conflicts.

It is designed to be used as a legal reference in international and non-international armed conflicts, including by courts, tribunals and international organizations.

It is the only article of the Geneva Conventions that applies in non-international conflicts.

Protocol II has the same limitations but in relation only to non-international armed conflict.

The Geneva Conventions also protect those affected by non-international armed conflicts such as the Syrian Civil War.

Two years later he earned his doctorate at the University of Nancy in the field of international law with a thesis on military interventions in non-international conflicts.

The United States is currently in a non-international armed conflict with al-Qa'ida and its associated forces.

Any U.S. operation would be part of this non-international armed conflict, even if it were to take place away from the zone of active hostilities.

Protocol II is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts.