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    Gang violence or the continuation of an armed conflict by other means: the application of international humanitarian and criminal law to gangs as an organized non-state armed group
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023-06) Pose, Jorge Claudio Lema; Swart, Mia
    The purpose of this thesis is to develop the applicability of International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law to a specific organized criminal group (the maras or gangs in Central America).4 This thesis considers that this criminal actor (the maras) within the gangs presents many similar aspects to traditional non-state organized armed groups. Furthermore, the thesis will explain how the maras have instrumented a level of violence that, in practical terms, has reached the threshold of an armed conflict: in summary, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law can be applied to the maras