Boko Haram is a local terrorist group in Nigeria that has adopted insurgency tactics. Their formal name translates to "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad." They were nicknamed "Boko Haram" meaning "western education is forbidden." In 2013, the US designated them a terrorist organization due to fears they had developed links with other militant groups like al-Qaeda. A global campaign was launched for the release of kidnapped Chibok girls. They consider education an enemy to their ideology and represent concepts like non-international armed conflict and insurgency under international law.

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10. • These are local terrorist group in Nigeria who
have adopted insurgency tactics.
• Formal name is Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’wati
Wal-Jihad meaning People committed to the
Propagation of the Prophet’s teachings and
Jihad
• Were nicknamed Boko Haram meaning
”western education is forbidden”
In 2013, the US designated it a terrorist
organization, amid fears that it had developed
links with other militant groups, such as al-Qaeda
in the Islamic Maghreb, to wage a global jihad.

13. A global Campaign were launched for the release of the Chibok Girls

16. 2009 Insurgency

19. They consider education as an enemy to their ideology

30. They represent the following concepts in
international law during the war:
 As non-international armed conflict (NIAC)
Art 3 Common to the Geneva convention
The fighting must occur between governmental
armed forces and the forces of one or more
non-State armed groups having a certain level
of organization, or between such armed
groups.

31.  As insurgency
Insurgency describes the actions of a minority
group within a state (or in some instances a
majority group which lacks power) intent on forcing
political change by means of a mixture of
subversion, propaganda and military pressure. The
intent is to persuade or intimidate the broad mass
of the people to accept such change. Again, each
side may have help from outside. There is not a
clear distinction between civil war and insurgency.

32.  As belligerency
This is the term used in international law to indicate
the status of two or more entities, generally sovereign
states being engaged in war
A state of belligerency may also exist between one or
more sovereign states on one side and rebel forces, if
such rebel forces are recognized as belligerents. If
there is a rebellion against a constituted authority and
there are not known as belligerents the rebellion is
known as insurgency
 Co-belligerence
This is the waging of war in cooperation against a
common enemt without a formal treaty of military.

33.  Terrorist
 Terrorism may be defined as premeditated,
politically motivated violence perpetrated by
groups or individuals and usually intended to
influence an audience wider than that of its
immediate victims. In one form, terrorism
may be an element of insurgency. In another,
it may be employed for objectives short of
the overthrow of the state. It may also be
used by one state against another.

34. Is humanitarian law passe, or atleast stale and
in need of revision?
 First Geneva Convention
 Second Geneva Convetion
 Third Geneva Convention
 Fourth Geneva Convention

35.  Protocol I
 Protocol II
 Protocol III

36. The response to this requires familiarity with
the scope of application of humanitarian law as
well as its substance.
As concerns the scope of application:
 That humanitarian law applies only in armed
conflict.
 That other legal regimes such as domestic
and international criminal and human rights
law also apply, but only to a limited extent
during armed conflict

37.  That terrorism and the war on terror are
sometimes manifested in armed conflict,
other times not
 That there are good reasons involving the
global balance between state and personal
security, human rights, and civil liberties for
this division of legal labor between
humanitarian law and other laws.

38. As for substance, it comes in two forms that are
at once related and contradictory:
 That applicable law is lacking.
 That applicable law exists but is in
hindrance.

39. Boko Haram
International organizations response
1) The United Nations
2) The European Union
3) The African Union

40. States intervention on Boko Haram
1) The United States
2) The United Kingdom
3) France
4) Israel, Sri Lanka and India
5) China

41. The United Nations security council established
the UN organization Mission in DRC to protect
the civilians and consolidate peace.

42.  Improved its ability to monitor political
developments, plan and support peacekeeping
operations and coordinate mechanisms
charged with peace-building.
 More creative and constructive use of
sanctions eg, reducing illegal exploitation of
natural resources by armed groups and finding
ways to channel revenues for good of
population.

43.  Since the statute came into force, crimes
commited against children during armed
conflict have figured prominently in the
indicaments issued by the ICC in the
DRC,Uganda and the Central African
Republic.
Eg the famous case of Thomas lubanga Dyilo.

44.  Though these groups have been desgnated
as armed conflict groups, little has been
done with these nations to take advantage of
these international offers and support .
Moreover, credible reports of human rights
abuses by the Nigerian security forces
create difficulties for outside involvement by
democratic states committed to furthering
human rights.