Foreign Fighters, Human Rights and Self-Determination in Syria and Iraq: Decoding the Humanitarian Impact of Foreign Fighters in Practice
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Foreign fighters have become inextricably linked to perceptions of human rights abuses in the Syria and Iraq wars, particularly since the Islamic State group founded its caliphate. This paper explores the human rights impact of foreign fighters in the conflicts, noting that while foreign fighters have been involved in grave human rights abuses, such behavior has not been uniform and must be differentiated by group and role. In this regard, it is argued that while foreign fighters have overwhelmingly had a negative impact on most human rights indicators, fighters in some groups have positively impacted the Right to Self-Determination. Further, the paper notes that while foreign fighters have been large-scale perpetrators of human rights abuses, one must also consider the propaganda value of such acts because foreign fighter-led violence is more newsworthy globally than local-led violence.
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Resolution 2178 (2014), un Security Council, available at <http://www.un.org/en/sc/ctc/docs/2015/SCR%202178_2014_EN.pdf>.
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Foreign Fighters, supra note 12, p. 4.
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“Iraq 2015/2016”, supra note 11.
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Lizzie Dearden, “ISIS Video: Full Transcript of ‘a Message to David Cameron’ ”, The Independent (2016), available at <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/isis-video-full-transcript-of-a-message-to-david-cameron-siddhartha-dhar-isa-dare-a6797671.html>.
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Ibid., p. 70.
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Kristin M. Bakke, “Help Wanted? The Mixed Record of Foreign Fighters in Domestic Insurgencies”, International Security 38, no. 4 (2014); Ben Rich and Dara Conduit, “The Impact of Jihadist Foreign Fighters on Indigenous Secular-Nationalist Causes: Contrasting Chechnya and Syria”, 38(2) Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2015).
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Bakke, supra note 72.
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Weiss and Hassan, supra note 80, p. 166.
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Foreign Fighters, Human Rights and Self-Determination in Syria and Iraq: Decoding the Humanitarian Impact of Foreign Fighters in Practice
In: International Community Law ReviewSearch for other papers by Dara Conduit in
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PubMed
Foreign fighters have become inextricably linked to perceptions of human rights abuses in the Syria and Iraq wars, particularly since the Islamic State group founded its caliphate. This paper explores the human rights impact of foreign fighters in the conflicts, noting that while foreign fighters have been involved in grave human rights abuses, such behavior has not been uniform and must be differentiated by group and role. In this regard, it is argued that while foreign fighters have overwhelmingly had a negative impact on most human rights indicators, fighters in some groups have positively impacted the Right to Self-Determination. Further, the paper notes that while foreign fighters have been large-scale perpetrators of human rights abuses, one must also consider the propaganda value of such acts because foreign fighter-led violence is more newsworthy globally than local-led violence.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 633 | 101 | 14 |
| Full Text Views | 315 | 9 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 179 | 13 | 1 |