The document discusses key concepts in the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) including: - The definition of an international armed conflict according to Protocol I as between states or dissident armed groups exercising control over territory. - The intersection between LOAC/International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights Law, where LOAC is considered the lex specialis in international armed conflicts. - The common articles of the 1949 Geneva Conventions which define the scope of application of IHL to international (Common Article 2) and non-international (Common Article 3) armed conflicts. - Issues around promoting compliance with and accountability for IHL given increasing violence and challenges to the international order.