A non-belligerent is a person, a state, or other organization that does not fight in a given conflict. The term is often used to describe a country that does not take part militarily in a war. The status is non-existent in international law.
A non-belligerent state differs from a neutral one in that it may be supporting certain belligerents in a war but with the exception of not being directly involved in military operations.
The term may also be used to describe a person not involved in combat or aggression, especially in a situation where combat or aggression is likely. Thus in a situation of civil unrest, such as a riot, civilians may be divided into belligerents, those actually fighting or intending to fight, and non-belligerents who are merely bystanders.
List of Non-Belligerents during war
United States of America
A notable example of non-belligerent in an environment of total war was the American economic support of the Allies in World War II, prior to their entry into the war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The economic support given by the Americans was through the Lend Lease Program which saw the United States provide the United Kingdom "all possible assistance short of war" in the words of Winston Churchill, but they remained a non-belligerent state in the war until Congress formally declared war on Japan following the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
More on this later ... and ... By 1954 according to Andrew Roberts, non-Whites were only 0.16% of England’s population ... And having Britain as a non-belligerent might have prevented Hitler making his supreme blunder of gratuitously declaring war on the U.S.
CNN —. Syria’s new regime, led by a group with former ties to al Qaeda, is on a mission to gain international legitimacy – and it’s already seeing some success ... He seeks to present Syria’s new regime as a friendly, inclusive and non-belligerent state ... .
... agreement that would amount to little more than non-belligerence – a condition that already exists as long as we remain strong, and which would be violated the moment our neighbors sense weakness.
PresidentJoe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, after having repeatedly promised that he would not ...Similar favoritism for family members manifested ... There were more than 30 people at the ranch including women, children, and other non-belligerents ... .
... term, had managed, through diplomacy and a non-belligerent stance toward the Chinese, to put the issue of sovereignty over the shoal in the backburner, with Filipino fishermen allowed to fish there.
Moreover, disrupting communication networks in non-belligerent States risks destabilising global economic systems, potentially harming the saboteur’s own interests, given the interconnected nature of global communications infrastructure.
... has engaged in a campaign of non-neutral acts and belligerent acts and acts of war against the Russian Federation in violation of the United States Neutrality Legislation set forth in 18 U.S.C.
In terms of the relationship between the Curva Nord and the Curva Sud, things changed in the 1980s when both sides decided to enter into a non-belligerence pact to avoid violence, and that helped the ...
... equally – in the hope to bring more people along into a different, non-belligerent, but peaceful thinking – and hopefully help opening the way, leading the world into a dynamism of Peace and Light.
... non-Jat voters. The belligerent Jats had started celebrating Congress’s return to power much before the votes were cast, while the non-Jat voters remained mum about their next political move.
It will help give the BJP’s managers the confidence that its political formula of consolidating non-dominant communities in a state where the belligerence of the dominant community appears threatening ...
And while they won't go into the toilet, they won't be where they were when you had a pandemic and the belligerent activity that drove up commodity prices." ... Since then, non-farm employment has risen to about 470,000 people working.
It agglomerated in 2009 to form an alliance of non-Western states as a counterpoint to the domination by European, then American empires in the 20th century... Yet as the 21st century unfolded, the Western states acted increasingly belligerently.
Second, Kant called for non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations ... Both the Athenian and Roman republics were notoriously belligerent. Britain was the 19th century’s leading democracy, but perhaps its most belligerent power.
