International humanitarian law acknowledges three kinds of disputes: international military conflicts, internationalized armed war and non-international armed conflicts. It is obvious from international humanitarian law what an international armed war is. There are still various military conflicts around the world between warring groups in a single state (non-international armed conflicts) and factions in two or more nations (international armed conflicts). They have destroyed millions of individuals in numerous ways, including murdering people, torturing, raping, physically evacuating survivors and otherwise severely exploiting them. At the end of 2019, the world’s highest number ever reported, 79.5 million people had been internally displaced by arms.

Armed conflicts-wars-continue to cause massive deaths, displacement and suffering. Violent wars are largely regulated by international humanitarian law (IHL), often referred to as the rules of war. IHL is a series of laws that govern the acceptable actions of the parties to a dispute, either codified in treaties or accepted by tradition.

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