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Humanitarian diplomacy, in order to foster respect for the civilian population and, in general, for non-combatants, does not aim to legally evaluate the events occurring during an armed conflict. Instead, it is limited to adopting the pertinent and possible measures to assist the actual or potential victims of the crisis generated by it. In the case of serious and repeated breaches of international humanitarian law, it seeks to hold the violators accountable, primarily through the criminal sanctioning of war crimes or serious violations of this branch of public international law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work I analyse how war and peace modified the military forces in the Canary Islands between the years 1769-1799. At the same time, I study the defensive forces of the Islands: the regular troops already located there, the forces sent as reinforcements, the provincial militias, and the civilian population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of this study is to explore a set of psychosocial variables that may contribute to the constructive transformation of a violent sociopolitical conflict. Based upon several authors in Social and Political Psychology, we propose an analysis of the conflict through thirteen variables. These variables are stated from the perspective of the non-combatant population within the context of a real armed conflict. The variables are related to beliefs about the conflict's actors, perceptions of threat, confidence and costs, ethnocentric attitudes and interaction preferences with the adversaries. An attitude towards the conflict questionnaire was created and applied, with acceptable psychometric indexes. It confirms thirteen dimensions adjusted to the initial proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]