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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Atrocity crimes"”.
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Order versus Justice: An Assessment of the Challenges Faced by The Commission of Experts and The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia During Their Attempts to Investigate and Prosecute Atrocity Crimes
… international investigations and prosecutions of atrocity crimes poses the conflict between order and justice in international relations in an equally stark form. Diplomatic attempts to facilitate a negotiated settlement to an armed conflict (order) may be undermined by attempts to investigate and …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… social and legal understandings of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Utilizing a social constructivist, interactional legal theory analytical framework, I argue that aesthetic considerations play a major role in identifying these international crimes. The “visibility politics” …
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The Complexity of Identifying Genocide in the Midst of Bloodshed
… be assessed under the more general rubric of atrocity crimes, and that the term genocide should instead be reserved for after a conflict has ended and a clearer analysis can be made by an international court or tribunal.
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An investigation into the irregular military dynamics in Yugoslavia, 1992-1995
… irregular military actors operate in modern mass atrocity crises, providing an evidencebased multi-perspective analysis of the irregular military dynamics that accompanied the violent collapse of Yugoslavia (1991-1995). While it is broadly accepted that paramilitary or irregular units have been …
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Examining the impact of the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine on state sovereignty in contemporary international law
… community to take action to halt or prevent atrocity crimes, including a provision for UN Security Council-authorised military action to be undertaken as a last resort. This thesis seeks to examine how R2P has impacted the contemporary functioning of sovereignty, particularly focusing upon …
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The United Nations Security Council: ways out of the Veto-Dilemma
… prove its negative role in the context of mass atrocity crimes. The thesis concludes by summarizing the main legal possibilities to regulate the veto power in order to contain its negative impact on human rights and to ensure the functionality of the UNSC. The findings are applied to the case …
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The international criminal court and the responsibility to protect
… when a state fails to deal with international crimes perpetrated under its jurisdiction. The activity of the Court and the implementation of the doctrine experience similar problems of implementation and double standards, being closely connected to the political structure of the international …
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The responsibility to protect (R2P): an analysis of the fulfillment of the obligation borne by the Nigerian Government and the international community to protect the Nigerian population from Boko Haram
… to protect their populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. I have argued that if a state fails to fulfil its legal obligation to protect its population from mass violations of human rights, the principle of state sovereignty and its accompanying norm …
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Chief Amongst The Angels? International Prosecutors And The Modernist Project
… pathologies, international prosecutors of war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide and crimes of aggression might represent the vanguard in the quest for international criminal justice and be regarded by many as featuring among humanity’s better angels. Indeed, they might well be …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
… the classical idea. I, thus, introduce ‘atrocity suppression’ and articulate the key benefits that will accrue from its adoption.