title: The participation of civilians in armed conflicts: A case study of the Russian-Ukrainian war
abstract: In a common practice since the Middle Ages, women, children, the elderly, unarmed combatants and prisoners of war have been under the aegis of rules guaranteeing their rights to integrity. With the deployment of weapons with a high destructive potential in civil conflicts in the mid-19th century, a new discussion about the protection of groups indirectly involved in the fighting emerged, and a new type of institutionalized legislation was developed, agreed at international level through multilat