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The Role of International Organisations in World Politics
Do international organizations act for the maintenance of international peace, or are they little more than guarantors of the interests of powerful states?
Justice And Peace: The Role of International Tribunals in Transitional Justice
Dealing with the perpetrators of mass atrocity and conflict is at the heart of questions about transitional justice and rebuilding the state following mass violence.
‘Hospitality’ and the Ethics of EU Foreign Policy (1999-2004)
The concept of hospitality can be used to analyse EU foreign policy in a number of ways. The EU’s own approach uses this concept to demonstrate the ethical dimension of EU foreign policy.
International Courts And The Domestic Judiciary In Africa
From the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone to the investigations by the International Criminal Court, international criminal justice in Africa has taken an increasingly domestic approach.
Child Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
The systematic inclusion of children in the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission process was unprecedented in the history of truth and reconciliation initiatives. Given the country’s history of child involvement in the war as both victims and perpetrators, it was especially important to include children in the post-conflict peacebuilding processes.
Ethnic Conflict and R2P
We may all agree that there is a moral imperative to halt mass atrocities. The problem is the reconciliation of such an obligation and our entrenched system of anarchy at the international level. Those states that are part of the United Nations should have a responsibility to respect the adoption of R2P principles, notably the moral imperative to halt mass atrocities and punish the perpetrators through the ICC.
Are International Courts Effective?
International courts as they stand are flawed, yet they have accomplished a great deal in making the international order less anarchic. It would be naïve, however, to assume that the relative achievements of international justice have eradicated the risk of genocide and other heinous crimes against humanity
Is Pre-Emptive War Ethical?
Cicero claimed that a war is only considered “just” if a demand for the war was addressed to the opponent and that a formal declaration of war was made. However, in reality only two types of war can be judged “just”: a war of self-defence, preventing the damages against an attack presently occurring, and a war of avenging, to punish past harms.
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