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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"war crime"”.
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Multivariate Analysis of War Crime Behaviour: Implications for the International Criminal Court
To prosecute perpetrators of war crimes the International Criminal Court (ICC) must connect the physical actions of the offence and ‘most responsible’ offenders charged with planning, instigating and intent on carrying out crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of …
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WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
Researchers have given considerable attention to war crimes across nations. Numerous anthropologists, political scientists, and economists have conducted research on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; however, there is scant literature exploring violations of international law as experienced by the …
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The anatomy of the war crimeof attacking peacekeepersunder internationalhumanitarian law andinternational criminal law
This thesis is concerned with the analysis of the war crime of attacking peacekeeping missions under international humanitarian law and international criminal law. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court criminalises “(…) intentionally directing attacks against personnel, …
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The crime of 'terror' under International Humanitarian Law
… this thesis is to investigate the status of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime under international humanitarian law. Included in Article 51 (2) of Additional Protocol I and in Article 13 (2) of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the crime prohibits the ‘acts or threats of …
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Issues and Controversies Surrounding the Use of Plea Bargaining in International Criminal Tribunals
… these negotiations. This thesis goes some way towards remedying this by making use of extensive in-depth interviews with international trial professionals. The thesis incorporates these interviews into an analysis of plea bargaining through three theoretical models: classic utilitarianism, …
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The accountability of transnational armed groups under international law
… on transnational terrorism since the 1930s, a crime of transnational terrorism under International Law remains contested, reflecting concerns regarding the relative importance of prosecuting members of transnational armed groups before the International Criminal Court. However, a study of the …
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Karo nusikaltimų traktuotė tarptautiniuose teisės aktuose ir LR BK /
… provides a detailed analysis of the approach to war crimes in the instruments of the International law and in the Criminal code of the Republic of Lithuania. First of all, the conception of war crimes in international documents is analized, with an objective to provide a clear and comprehensive …
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Problems and Implications of Outlawing Aggressive War : An Examination of the Charter Resulting from the London Conference, August 8, 1945
… Nazi Germany's leaders after the Second World War was predicated on the Allied nations' signing of the London Charter, which provided the law and procedures for the Nuremberg war-crime trials. The Charter is something of a landmark, both as a substantive code outlawing crimes against the …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
This thesis investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how …
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Exploring the differences and similarities in sexual violence as forms of genocide and crimes against humanity
… and interpretation to sexual violence as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide respectively. This case was important for the following reasons:1. It acknowledged that sexual violence can amount to an act of genocide; 2. It acknowledged that sexual violence can amount to a crime …
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Cosmopolitan Subjects: An Anthropological Critique of Cosmopolitan Criminal Law and Political Modernity
This dissertation addresses the question of how we should understand the cosmopolitan power to punish the criminal embodied in the new global criminal courts, and whether cosmopolitan law can serve as the basis for what an earlier generation of anthropologists would have called a culturally-neutral …
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
… on displacement as a category of international crimes. This thesis represents a modest attempt to begin filling that gap by examining the constitutive elements of forced displacement within international criminal law and analysing the conceptual and structural tensions that emerge when …
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LA GIUSTIZIA PENALE INTERNAZIONALE DI FRONTE AI TRIBUNALI DOMESTICI. PROPOSTE PER L¿ADEGUAMENTO DELLA LEGISLAZIONE ITALIANA IN MATERIA DI CRIMINA IURIS GENTIUM.
La giustizia penale internazionale di fronte ai tribunali domestici. Proposte per l’adeguamento della legislazione italiana in materia di crimina iuris gentium. La tesi si concentra sulla proposta di soluzioni per l’adeguamento dell’ordinamento italiano alle disposizioni sostanziali dello Statuto …