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Dr Anthony Cullen is a Researcher on the joint British Red Cross/International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) project to update the ICRC’s Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law.
Prior to joining the project, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the concept of non-international armed conflict in international humanitarian law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. A former IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar, he previously worked as a legal researcher with Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights NGO based in the West Bank, and as a member of the Human Rights Unit of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. He also served for six years in the Irish Reserve Army.
He holds a BA in Philosophy, an MA in Ethical and Cultural Studies, an LLM in International Human Rights Law, and a PhD in International Humanitarian Law. His book The Concept of Non-International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2010. Chapter 4 of this work, "The Threshold of Non-International Armed Conflict", is reproduced here with permission © Anthony Cullen 2010.
Email: atc30@cam.ac.uk | Law Faculty Profile: Dr Anthony Cullen
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