Abstract:
Climate change has caused more effects in fragile states as they were already suffering
from non-international armed conflicts. It created an environment in which non-state armed
groups flourished and enabled them to increase their influence and strengthen their ranks
relying on the spread of poverty and unemployment, the low availability of basic services,
and the scarcity of natural resources, as they have forcibly recruited young men of these
states into their ranks, especially the children. Also, they have committed human trafficking
to increase their resources. In addition, they have militarized natural resources to use them
as a weapon of war. These things resulted in serious implications and repercussions on the
enforcement of international humanitarian law and in order to confront the crimes of these
groups that are causing a real threat to the safety and stability of the international community
and a danger that most countries of the world live in as it targets its joints. Therefore, this
damage requires activating the enforcement of criminal responsibility against their leaders
and members even if their countries are not a party to the Rome Statue of the international
criminal court and that is to ensure respect for the international law in armed conflicts in light
of the increased activities of these groups.
