These three charts were prepared by Dr. Christopher Mullins, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University. They are excerpted from a study directed by Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni between 2008 and 2010.

The Project was undertaken by the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) (Siracusa, Italy) and was funded by the European Union.

NOTES ON THE TABLES

Conflict Typology

Primary Classification

The conflicts included in our catalog are primarily categories as (1) Wars of an International Character (or International Armed Conflicts); (2) Wars Not of An International Character (Non-International Armed Conflicts); and (3) Purely Internal Conflicts and Instances of State Terror or Repressive Regimes. These categories are used as they are derived from the laws governing armed conflict. Wars of an International Character are defined within Common Article 2 of the Geneva Conventions as those conflicts which are declared wars or are armed conflicts arising between two signatories of the conventions. As Article 1(4) of Additional Protocol I sets forth, this includes wars of national liberation. Wars Not of an International Character, per common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, are those which involve a state and organized insurgent groups. Purely Internal Armed Conflicts are those which do not satisfy the definitional criteria as established in Common Article 3 and Additional Protocol II. Here, we find the main belligerents to be dissident groups in the state or the state itself wielding its power to repress portions of the population. Instances of state-terror and repressive regimes is included in this study as these events produce many examples of what the overall project has called post-conflict justice. Thus, their exclusion would be highly problematic.