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Civilians play an increasingly important and complex role in armed conflicts, both as victims and as perpetrators. While this overall trend towards 'civilianization' encompasses all types of present-day conflicts, it is twofold: it takes on a very different nature in high-technology warfare than in the context of low-technology combats that are typical of many civil wars. This article explores these two trends, shows how they merge in asymmetric warfare and outlines key implications for international stabilization and state-building efforts. The present-day conflict landscape is presented from a security policy point of view, placing the ongoing debates on the civilian participation in hostilities in a broader strategic context. Adapted from the source document.

The present article first deals with the specific context of the Korean conflict. Subsequently follows a summary with some general notes on the role of the six parties involved (the two Korean states, the USA, China, Russia and Japan), and the options offered by Swiss CSS (Center for Security Studies) and Swedish SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), involved in a multinational research program to find " Tools for Building Confidence on the Korean Peninsula ". References. O. van Zijl