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For further information, see ‘Non-international armed conflict’ in our Classification section. Government forces are presumed to satisfy the criteria of organization. Second, in every non-international armed conflict, at least one side in the conflict must be a non-state armed group that exhibits a certain level of organization in order to qualify as a party to the non-international armed conflict. Two criteria need to be assessed in order to answer the question whether a situation of armed violence amounts to a non-international armed conflict:įirst, the level of armed violence must reach a certain degree of intensity that goes beyond internal disturbances and tensions.