The documents herein are selected due to their relevance and significance to academics, policymakers and practitioners alike.The views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the project.

 

Publications

  • Empowered Groups, Tested Laws, and Policy Options, The Challenges of Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups (November 2007) Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (Harvard University), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), available at: www.tagsproject.org/_data/global/images/Report_Empowered_Groups_Nov2007.pdf
  • Claude Bruderlein (Harvard University), Andrew Clapham (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Keith Krause (Graduate Institute of International Studies), and Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (Harvard University) Transnational and Non-State Actors: Issues and Challenges, Seminar on Transnational and Non_State Armed Groups convened by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University in cooperation with the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), and the Radcliffe Institute
    for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, March 9-10, 2007, available at: www.tagsproject.org/_data/global/images/Overview.pdf

     

 

Key Documents

General

  • Atkins, Stephen E. (2004), Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers), available at http:/psi.praeger.com
  • Balencie, J-M & A. de La Grange (2005), Les Nouveaux Mondes rebelles (Paris: éditions Michalon).
  • Baud, Jacques (2003), Encyclopédie des terrorismes et violences politiques (Panazol: Lavauzelle).
  • Black, Jeremy(2004) War and the New Disorder in the 21st Century. New York: Continuum.
  • Davis, Diane, Pereira, Anthony,(eds) (2003) Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation (Cambridge University Press )
  • Florquin, Nicolas and Berman, Eric G. (eds) (2005), Armed and Aimless: Armed Groups, Guns, and Human Security in the ECOWAS Region (Geneva: Small Arms Survey), available at:www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/b_series1.html
  • Hewitt, Christopher and Cheetham, Tom (2000), Encyclopedia of modern separatist movements (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO Inc).
  • Holmqvist, Caroline (2005) Engaging Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict Settings. In: Alan Bryden and Heiner Ha?nggi (eds): Security Governance in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Series: Ge-
    neva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), available at: www.dcaf.ch/_docs/Yearbook2005/Chapter3.pdf
  • Minahan, James B. (2002), Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World (Westport Connecticut [etc.]: Greenwood Press), Vol. IV.
  • Ould Mohamedou, Mohammed-Mahmoud (2005) Non-Linearity of Engagement: Transnational Armed Groups, International Law, and the Conflict between Al Qaeda and the United States.
    (Cambridge: Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University9, available at: www.hpcr.org/pdfs/Non-Linearity_of_Engagement.pdf
  • Policzer, Pablo. 'Neither terrorists nor freedom fighters' Paper presented at the International Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-5 March 2005.
  • Ravi, Nair (1998) Confronting the Violence Committed by Armed Opposition Groups, (Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Volume 1) available at: islandia.law.yale.edu/yhrdlj/pdf/Vol%201/Ravi_Nair_YHRDLJ.pdf
  • Reno,William (1998) Warlord Politics and African States (Boulder, CO Lynne Rienner Publishers)
  • Shultz, Richard H., Douglas Farah & Itamara Lochard. (2004) 'Armed groups: a tier-one security priority' (Colorado: USAF Institute for National Security Studies, Occasional Paper 57)
  • Szajkowski, Bogdan (ed) (2004), Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World (London: John Harper Publishing).

International Law

  • Bruderlein, Claude,( 2000) The Role of Non-State Actors in Building Human Security: The Case of Armed Groups in Intra-State Wars. Geneva, (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue), available at: www.hdcentre.org/datastore/files/nsa.pdf
  • Byers, Michael (2005) Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict (Grove Press: New York)
  • Clapham, Andrew (2006) Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors (Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law)
  • Kennedy, David (2006) Of War and Law, (Princeton University Press)
  • Sassoli, Marco, (2006) Transnational armed groups and International Humanitarian Law (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research Harvard University Occasional Paper Series Winter 2006 Number 6) available at: www.hpcr.org/pdfs/OccasionalPaper6.pdf
  • Petrasek, David (2000) Ends of means : Human Rights Approaches to Armed Groups , (International Council on Human Rights Policy)
  • Suter, Keith (1984) An International Law of Guerrilla Warfare: The Global Politics of Law-Making (New York: St. Martin's)
  • Wippman,David and Evangelista, Matthew (2005) New Wars, New Laws? Applying the Laws of War in 21st Century Conflicts (Transnational Publishers Cornell University)
  • Zegveld, Liesebeth, (2002) The Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law, (Cambridge University Press), available at: assets.cambridge.org/97805218/11309/sample/9780521811309ws.pdf

Governmental reports

  • United States Department, 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism Report (Appendix C), available at www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2003/31759.htm
  • U.S. Department of State, Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), Fact Sheet Office of Counterterrorism, Washington, DC, October 11, 2005 available at: www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/37191.htm
  • CRS Report for Congress, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Feb. 6, 2004.
     

International intergovernmental organization’s reports

  • EU Council, Common Position of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism, Doc. No. 2001/931/CFSP, Official Journal of the European Communities L 344/93, 28.12.2001.
  • EU Council, Common Position 2006/380/CFSP of 29 May 2006, Official Journal of the European Communities L 144/25, 31.5.2006.
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, available at: www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/sc7158.doc.htm
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 1566 (2004) , available at: daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/542/82/PDF/N0454282.pdf

 

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