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A great deal of literature focused on the transformation of warfare, the
changing nature of belligerence, as spurred by globalization and by the
ending of the Cold War bipolar order. Scholars1 theorized and analysed the
so-called “new wars” and concentrated on the characteristics of intra-state
armed violence occurring at the beginning of the post-Cold War era. Others
emphasized the prevalence of civil wars.2 Many such approaches identified
a changing strategy in internal armed conflicts, by focusing on ethnic
cleansing, on systematic attacks carried out against unarmed civilians, on
forced recruitment of children, on sexual violence carried out against
women, on forced displacement of populations, on deliberate attacks on
cemeteries, cultural heritage, historic buildings, archives, places of worship,
and on historical sites, in general. Therefore, the main arguments presented
in this book revolve around a changing dynamic and strategy in recent and
contemporary armed conflicts, which are internal (not international) and
which feature attacks on civilians, on communities, on the links of ethnic, religious, identity groups (in general) to certain geographic areas or the
social and historical developments in some territories. |
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