Armed conflicts, including wars, terrorism, and religious struggles, lead to victimization through the dehumanization of involved persons in combination with the effects of anxiety, unrest, panic, and structural criminality. These factors cause people to die, become injured, lose their homes, and even go into permanent exile from their homelands.
The typology of victims of armed conflict is diverse, covering the spectrum of casualties, refugees, exiles, deportees, the homeless, internees, prisoners of war, and children. Macrovictimization refers to the social processes in which entire states or ethnic populations are victimized. These situations are often mutual, resulting in large-scale property and personal damage as well as a high degree of politicization and ideological pressure. The international community has tried to humanize the macrovictimization situations arising from mass hostilities based on the principle of proportionality and the rules of war. 50 references