18. 此外，虽然和平时期的拘留通常与刑事犯罪有关，但在武装冲突中，交战各方在某些条件下拘禁个人是合法的(见下文第 20-23 段)，目的是防止安全威胁成为现实，60 或仅仅因为他们是战斗人员而将他们作为战俘关押，无论他们的实际行为如何。61 此外，武装冲突经常涉及在共同交战方之间移送被拘留者，这让人们更加担心，在一个拘留当局向另一个拘留当局移交的过程中，人权可能会受到侵犯，或者接收当局提供的人权保护水平可能会大大降低(见第 28 段)。
18. Furthermore, while detention in peacetime is normally linked to criminal offences, in armed conflict it is lawful, under certain conditions (see paras. 20–23 below), for belligerent parties to detain individuals in order to prevent a security threat from materializing 60 or to hold them as prisoners of war solely because of their status as combatants, irrespective of their actual conduct.61 Additionally, armed conflicts frequently involve transfers of detainees between co-belligerents, giving rise to further concerns that human rights may be violated in the transition from one detaining authority to another or that receiving authorities may afford substantially lower levels of human rights protection (see para. 28).