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Organizing Rebellion: Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Lawmakes a key contribution to the scholarship addressing modern situations of conflict and acute crisis. It traces the evolution of international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL) and international criminal law as relevant to the organization of nonState armed groups, and presents clear and accessible conclusions as to the current state of the law in these areas. The focus on these three interrelated areas of public international law is a key strength of the book. An analysis of contemporary armed conflicts and other situations of violence is unlikely to occur in legal silos, and practitioners will therefore be required to adopt a multidimensional, cross-cutting approach in order to identify armed groups, determine the applicable laws and unpack the legal obligations regulating armed BOOK REVIEW