• SUNDAY JOHN APOCHI

Recently, the world have seen an increasing number of intra-state wars unfold. The issue of terrorism attacks has increasingly impacted on the legal definition of non-international armed conflict. Thus, creating a lacuna in determining the applicable legal norms that delimit the State’s military might and to regulate the warring parties during the conducts of hostilities. Even though the legal test for the applicability and enforcement of international humanitarian law in non-international armed conflicts. Terrorism has caused much imbalance in the course of such legal determination. This article in examines this situation and submits that by subjectively classifying an internal situation and the conduct of hostilities as terrorism, the State has not displaced the applicability circumstances. The impact that terrorism has on the legal assessment is non-international armed conflict is insignificant.

Terrorism, Armed Conflict, Insecurity, Terrorism.

"ANALYSING THE LEGAL STATUS OF A TERRORIST IN A NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.385-395, January-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101255.pdf

"ANALYSING THE LEGAL STATUS OF A TERRORIST IN A NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no. pp385-395, January-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101255.pdf