The international humanitarian law was required, especially after the second world war, to adapt to more complex situations of armed conflict, such as civil wars, national liberation wars, and secessionist wars. The difficult question that arose was whether the four Geneva Convention Article 3 of the Four Geneva Conventions had been intended to confer a minimum degree of protection in the context of civil wars, there was a consensus among states that more specific provisions Geneva Convention were needed. Moreover, the protection of civilians under 1949 Geneva Convention IV is very limited. In addition, new issues have arisen since 1949 with changing patterns of armed conflict, particularly the post-war significance of ‘guerrilla warfare’. To deal with some of these problems, the Diplomatic Conference of 8 June 1977 adopted the two protocols additional to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949: