The article explores whether the European Union Agency for Asylum’s country guidance (CG) reflects the international protection needs of persons fleeing armed conflicts. It uses the Agency’s guidance on Iraq as a case study through the lens of objectivity and relevance. The article highlights the disproportionate reliance on military and State-centric sources which adopt a traditional and narrow concept of security grounded in quantitative approaches. The article argues that the main sources of Country of Origin Information used in CG are inadequate to capture the present-day nature of violence in situations of armed conflict. The article makes the case for a re-balancing of sources to be included in CG that reflects wider security studies perspectives and approaches. The article also suggests that the indicators of indiscriminate violence used by the Agency are grounded in international humanitarian law norms and therefore fail to reflect international protection standards, whilst also being inadequate to capture the nature of violence in situations of contemporary armed conflict. The use of sources of information adopting wider security perspectives and qualitative approaches are encouraged and other factors, such as spheres of control by actors to the conflict, are proposed for inclusion into international protection assessments.

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国家指南、原籍国信息和逃离武装冲突人员的国际保护需求

这篇文章探讨了欧盟庇护机构 (European Union Agency for Asylum) 的国家指南 (CG) 是否反映了逃离武装冲突的人的国际保护需求。它从客观性和相关性的角度将原子能机构关于伊拉克的指导作为案例研究。这篇文章强调了对军事和以国家为中心的来源的不成比例的依赖，这些来源采用基于定量方法的传统和狭隘的安全概念。文章认为，CG 中使用的原产国信息的主要来源不足以捕捉武装冲突局势中暴力的当今性质。这篇文章提出了重新平衡要包含在 CG 中的来源，以反映更广泛的安全研究观点和方法。该文章还表明，原子能机构使用的滥杀滥伤行为指标以国际人道主义法规范为基础，因此未能反映国际保护标准，同时也不足以反映当代武装冲突局势中暴力的性质。鼓励使用采用更广泛的安全视角和定性方法的信息来源，并建议将其他因素（例如冲突参与者的控制范围）纳入国际保护评估。