PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Treaty, Cyberwarfare, Extracurricular Activity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: Jorge Fabra Zammora

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Report on extracurricular activity: due october 24th, 2016. Must make connections between the event and readings of the course. Technical definition of war / armed conflict. Traditional and contemporary wars / nuclear war. Definition war is state organized, open-ended collective conflict or hostility : wars are only between states. Between states: officially declared (country a officially declares war against country b, rules of war (international humanitarian law) wars have rules and are supposed to be guided by these rules. Lewis richardson believes war needs 50,000 deaths. Singer believes war needs 1000 deaths. Syria (even isis are these wars?: war on aids, terrorism. If two states are fighting that = armed conflict. What we usually have now is irregular armed conflict: System of wars obtained to apply to regular wars (usually from the past) but are now applied to irregular armed conflict of today armed conflicts can be declared or not declard. Geneva conventions of humanitarian law = 4 of them.