A review on “When is a conflict international? Time for new control tests in IHL” by Djemila Carron

Authored by: Anjana Dhital Background Djemila Carron’s article titled ‘When is a conflict international? Time for new control tests in IHL’[1] has been extracted from her doctoral thesis on the triggering act of an International Armed Conflict (IAC). This article proposes innovative control tests to be applied for determining the extent of control a state must have over an armed force to initiate an IAC or internationalize an already existing Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) thereby rejecting effective and overall control tests instrum…