A Customary Comparison of the International Arms Trade with States Engaged in Unlawful Armed Conflict: The Importance of Domestic State Practice in the Identification of Customary International Law KU Leuven
This proposal starts from the observation that armed conflict is omnipresent in the contemporary international order. What these conflicts have in common is that they are largely fuelled by and dependent on the international trade in conventional arms. The need to minimize the availability of conventional arms in order to decrease the possibility of human suffering is what inspired the proposal to focus on the trade of arms with states ...