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Suffering and sovereignty: civil conflict, convert aid and international humanitarian law

The following text analyzes legal and political problemsthat arise when donor countries attempt to provide, or facilitate the distribution of, humanitarian aid to people in insurgent-controlled areas of another state without the consentof the government in question. The purpose is to find out how uninvited humanitarian relief operations (covert aid) can be justified given the existing legal treaties and recent developments in customary international law. The reason for doing so is to explore the impact which such aid has on the concept of state sovereignty and how this concept is undergoing ch…