217 Chema Suárez Serrano Journalism in the armed conflict of the 21st century:... ternet makes to this cause, which represents a new channel for exercising the freedoms enshrined in the most relevant international instruments pertaining to the fundamen-tal rights of individuals, as it places some unprecedented communication possibilities within the reach of millions of citizens. New technologies have rendered warfare more complicated. Nevertheless, they have simplified humanitarian aid. Organising aid for the victims is now easier, as the United Nations Foundation recognises: «Communications advances present an opportunity for humanitarian organizations to harness modern technology to communicate more effectively with communities affected by disasters and to allow members of those communities to communicate with each other and with the outside world. People in affected communities can recover faster if they can access and use information.» 25 Unarmed conflicts, non-military wars, virtual frontlines, technological and non-conventional weapons… This classification extends to many types of concepts (hybrid, irregular, compound and global wars etc.) and very similar approaches that on occasions are only distinguished from one another by means of minor details ascribed to them in the literature pertaining thereto, despite the fact that in the majority of cases this does not clarify matters to a great degree. There is no definitive concept and it seems clear that we are at a juncture of change and a lack of definition due to the influence of new tech-nologies, or, as the UN Secretary-General warns, jihadist terrorism, considered by the Security Council26 to be one of the gravest dangers to international peace and security: «The threat in this sector is significant, dynamic and evolving.»27 In Spain, the Spanish Centre for National Defence Studies (CESEDEN) underli-nes that what is crucial at this point in time is not the name, but the lack of methodo-logical rigour when it comes to dealing with this new reality that gives rise to count-less, sterile debates between specialists, as well as significant errors when determining strategies and when applying these to real conflicts: «They are, in origin, social conflicts, and like any social relationship they are not static phenomena but are instead dynamic and as a result must be analysed as social processes and not as static situations within societies.» 28 25 COYLE, D., MEIER, D., New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts. The Role of Information and So-cial Networks. Washington, D.C. and London, UK: UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Partnership, 2009. http://hhi.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/publications/new-technologies-in-emergencies-and-conflicts.pdf. 26 S/RES/1989,17 June 2011 http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1989(2011)&referer=/ english/&Lang=E 27 S/2016/501, Report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security, 31 May 2016 (para.37) http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2016/501&referer=/ english/&Lang=S. 28 Aa. Vv. «El enfoque multidisciplinar de los conflictos híbridos», Documentos de seguridad y defensa. Spa-nish Centre for National Defence Studies. Ministry of Defence, May 2012, pp. 7-8. http://www.defensa.gob. es/ceseden/Galerias/destacados/publicaciones/docSegyDef/ficheros/051_EL_ENFOQUE_MULTIDISCIPLI-NAR_ EN_LOS_CONFLICTOS_HIBRIDOS.pdf. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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