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Parameters of Sustainable Peace:UN Frameworks and Practice
No full textThis chapter examines normative principles for peacemakers and peacebuilding that define the parameters for just and sustainable peace in the UN system. It argues that an ‘imperfect’ peace is better than ‘just war’. It shows that UN notions of peace have been developed through practice. It explores how just peace approaches intersect with the UN peacebuilding architecture and Sustainable Development Goal 16. The author identifies core principles which shape UN post-conflict transitions, such as national ownership, inclusivity, rule of law, effective leadership, coordination, and accountability.<br/
Part I Context, Challenges, and Constraints, 2 The ICC and the Politics of Peace and Justice
No full textThe indictment of sitting heads of state and rebel leaders during active armed conflict has radically altered the debate surrounding international justice. Despite the view now widely held that peace and justice are complementary rather than competing values, conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Sudan, Libya, and Syria have brought home the reality that there are still significant barriers to achieving both peace and justice simultaneously, and that the prospects for enforcing justice are weak when perpetrators of atrocities remain powerful at home. Leading advocacy organizations and the ICC stress the role of international justice in delivering results, especially peace, the rule of law, and stability. This chapter discusses the shift in international justice advocacy from a principle or duty-based logic to one that is results-based. It argues that one way to promote justice may be to postpone it (e.g. through sequencing).</p
Chasing cases: the ICC and the politics of state referral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
No full textA Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law
No full textSuitable for students, academics and professionals from multiple fields wishing to understand contemporary theories, practices and critiques of international criminal law, this book presents the field in an accessible way via five core themes: crimes, theories of responsibility, global justice institutions, procedures and punishment and reparation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The UK in Iraq and the ICC::Judicial Intervention, Positive Complementarity and the Politics of International Criminal Justice
No full textThe UK Government has a strong track record of providing support to international criminal justice. However, in May 2014, it found itself the subject of a preliminary investigation by the ICC into alleged misconduct of UK forces following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq – an investigation that the UK could not publicly criticize, given that it was a strong supporter of the Court, but one that risked directly contradicting former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s assurances when the UK signed up to the Rome Statute in 1998, that no UK citizen would find him or herself in the dock there. The same allegations have been the focus of a series of criminal proceedings, cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’), domestic commissions of inquiry, and the Iraq Historical Investigations Team (‘IHAT’), which was still actively engaged in investigations 14 years since the events in question took place. The ICC’s preliminary investigation sits in the middle of a mess of contradictory and competing concerns, highlighting the sometimes tricky relationship between international and domestic politics, pragmatics and principles. This chapter seeks to set the British response to these developments in the context of a contemporary history of the different ways in which the UK has tried to address the legacy of allegations of unlawful conduct in Iraq to date, against the background of a shifting domestic political landscape, and in light of wider UK policy on international justice
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