Foreign Fighters and the Challenges Associated with their Criminal Accountibility

Abstract

The presented work focuses on the phenomenon of foreign fighters - a topic that has been for years appearing not only on cover pages of newspapers, but it is mainly a frequent subject of legal discussions and new legislations. The major reason is the connectivity of this phenomenon with the terrorism.

The aim of this work is a comprehensive charting/analysing and elucidating of questions who the foreign fighters are, what their status is in the framework of the international law and what the possibilities of their criminal accountability are.

Keywords

• Foreign Fighters
• Challenges
• Associated
• Criminal Accountibility
• criminal law
• international law
• terrorism
• responsibility