In 2000 Theodor Meron published his landmark essay entitled The Humanization of Humanitarian Law. Meron demonstrated that there is a gradual convergence in protections between human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) developing, which is fueled by a common commitment to human dignity. He explained that the shifting nature of conflicts away from traditional international armed conflict to non-international armed conflict “necessitated both new norms and reinterpretation of existing norms”. “Calamitous events and atrocities” during these contemporary conflicts pushes new IHL rules towards human rights principles, he explained.