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1 Ph.D. Student in (International Law) Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran‎

2 Associate Professor, Department of International Law, Law faculty, kharazmi University, Tehran, ‎Iran

3 Assistant Prof., Department of International Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, ‎Azad Islamic University of Chalus, Chalus, Iran‎

Abstract

The water crisis is entering a new arena, the effects of which are evident in the daily lives of millions of people. Day by day, both in times of peace and armed conflicts, the importance of water as a vital resource is increasing. International armed conflicts indicate the struggle for the domination of water in the future. As the subject of international negotiations or conflicts, water can become a factor to preserve the life of a population or a weapon to destroy the same population, depending on the case. In this way, contemporary international law has also paid special attention to it, and the necessity of an independent legal system in this regard under the title of international water law is felt more than ever. While investigating the role of water as a goal, means and cause in armed conflicts, the present study deals with the legal sources of water protection in armed conflicts in a juridical-philosophical (descriptive-analytical) way. The innovation of this research is investigation of water in terms of purpose, means and cause. The most important achievement of this research is that the necessity of access to water does not reflect the principle of segregation and discrimination.

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