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A safe zone can be defined as demarcated place protected by foreign military forces to ensure security of people who flee danger within their own country. If successfully established and maintained such zones eliminate security concerns of displaced persons, refugees, and at-risk civilians and aim to keep those groups within their own country. This function of safe zones gives refugee-receiving States an appropriate means to prevent persons from seeking refuge by crossing an international border.
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Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, ‘International Humanitarian Law, Protected Zones and the Use of Force’, in W. Biermann & M. Vadset (eds) UN Peacekeeping in Trouble: Lessons Learned from the Former Yugoslavia (Brookfield: Ashgate, 1998) 262, at 262.
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Stanley Hoffman, Duties beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1981), at 111.
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See, e.g., Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v US), ICJ Reports 1986, 14, para 246.
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Çetinkaya, L.B. (2017). Introduction. In: Safe Zone. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51997-5_1
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