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Peace Without Justice, Or Justice Without Peace?, Clair Apodaca
Peace Without Justice, Or Justice Without Peace?, Clair Apodaca
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Peace without justice is an illusion. The use of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute human rights violations not only provides restorative justice for those harmed by the wrongdoing but also retributive justice towards the perpetrators. Restorative justice seeks to help heal the wounds of the victims and community by acknowledging and witnessing the pain and suffering of the victim. Retributive justice seeks to punish the offenders. The hope is that retribution will deter or prevent future acts of violence by holding perpetrators accountable for the violations of human rights, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. …
Challenging The International Criminal Court Over Al-Bashir, Emma Gilligan
Challenging The International Criminal Court Over Al-Bashir, Emma Gilligan
Human Rights & Human Welfare
As of late November 2008, we are still awaiting the decision of the U.N. Security Council with regard to the request for the arrest of Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide put forward by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July. With former Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia as the only two heads of state formally indicted by the ICC since its inception in 2002, the question remains whether the U.N. Security Council will allow this controversial indictment of al-Bashir by Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo or invoke Article 16 …
Alex De Waal's Shuttle Diplomacy, Sarah Stanlick
Alex De Waal's Shuttle Diplomacy, Sarah Stanlick
Human Rights & Human Welfare
This month’s discussion piece, “The Activist,” is a critical look at one of the most renowned scholars of the turmoil in Sudan. Alex de Waal, a man with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the different factions, aspects, and issues surrounding the conflicts in Sudan, is profiled under a careful eye. De Waal, a competent critic—as McDonell notes who “takes pride in his competence, and he does not hesitate to criticize activists he deems inexpert”— has built a career on a meticulously researched understanding of the conflict. He honed that reputation through careful action, critical thinking, and a critical voice for …
December Roundtable: Introduction
December Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“The Activist.” Harper's Magazine. November 2008.
Human Rights Or Inhuman Wrongs, Edward Friedman
Human Rights Or Inhuman Wrongs, Edward Friedman
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The project of promoting universally recognized human rights, that is, the commitments of the U.N. General Assembly-ratified Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), is in danger. Military and political intervention, including economic sanctions, to stop genocide and ethnic and other political mass murder is under attack. Apparently the lessons of Hitler’s holocaust, the Turkish genocide of Armenians, Pol Pot’s slaughter of innocents, and the loss of life in Rwanda are being rethought and un-taught. So-called peace is now preferred over prevention. The dead may have died in vain.
Global Ethics And The Role Of Academics, Christien Van Den Anker
Global Ethics And The Role Of Academics, Christien Van Den Anker
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Academics have a social and professional responsibility that stems from their individual duties as global citizens. With their privileged position as lifelong learners they need to assess carefully where they direct their attention for research, their teaching and their exchange of knowledge with the wider public. This means that academic freedom does not only bring a range of rights, it also involves duties to develop and advocate ethical positions on real-life dilemmas and to engage in self-reflection on being in the role of contributing to oppression.
November Roundtable: Introduction
November Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“Foreign Policy Myths Debunked." The Nation. October 6, 2008.
Speak Softly...With Everyone You Can, Todd Landman
Speak Softly...With Everyone You Can, Todd Landman
Human Rights & Human Welfare
From the Monroe Doctrine to the Bush Doctrine, United States foreign policy has been predicated on the assumption that somehow it knows what is best for the rest of the world. Monroe feared a potential encroachment from Russia and meddling in the "American" Hemisphere by the European powers and issued what originally appeared as a modest statement about resistance to intervention by any other country than the United States . Ironically enforced by the British Navy at that time, the Monroe Doctrine went far beyond its modest beginnings to set a precedent for the development of U.S. foreign policy. The …
Human Rights And The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Brent J. Steele
Human Rights And The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Brent J. Steele
Human Rights & Human Welfare
There has been a vivid tendency this year by the conventional keepers of Washington wisdom to explicate the two presidential candidates' foreign policy views using old frameworks of "hawk" and "dove." Not only is this binary wrong, it fundamentally obscures some rather ironic potentials for how each candidate, if elected president, will focus upon human rights in their foreign policy. McCain's neoconservative view of the world is founded upon the Wilsonian call for democratization-culminating in what he terms a "League of Democracies." To use a concept that Arnold Wolfers first coined, and one which Joshua Muravchik has proffered as well, …
America As An Ordinary Nation, William F. Felice
America As An Ordinary Nation, William F. Felice
Human Rights & Human Welfare
For decades, scholars of international relations have called attention to the limits of American power. For example, in 1976 Cornel University Press published America as an Ordinary Country: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Future , edited by Richard Rosecrance. As the title indicates, Rosecrance's book analyzed the impact of the economic, military, and foreign policy setbacks of the 1970s on U.S. power. Suddenly the U.S. seemed less the powerful, "indispensible" leader and more the vulnerable, "ordinary" country unable to control external forces lashing the society's economy and foreign policy. These insights led many scholars to call for a reassessment of …
Myths, Reasonable Disagreement, And A League Of Democracies, James Pattison
Myths, Reasonable Disagreement, And A League Of Democracies, James Pattison
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The United States ' election in 2004 was based on a number of foreign policy myths. Three of the most obvious were:
- The war in Iraq was necessary as a response to the threat of international terrorism. As a result, the world is now a safer place;
- The institutions of the UN are corrupt and do nothing but restrict American power;
- Al Qaeda and international terrorism more generally are extremely significant threats to American national security
Reforming Humanitarian Rescue, Brent J. Steele
Reforming Humanitarian Rescue, Brent J. Steele
Human Rights & Human Welfare
There is much to commend in Morton Abramowitz and Thomas Pickering’s article “Making Intervention Work.” They propose to reform the United Nations’ capacity for intervention with the creation of an autonomous U.N. force largely constituted with forces contributed by the Security Council’s member-states. If such a force were kept to a minimal operational mission, “a small rapid-deployment force with special engineering, logistical, medical, and police skills,” as the authors suggest, then I think this is a good idea. If such a force would, however, become more than this—an autonomous army of military personnel meant to intervene with force into any …
October Roundtable: Introduction
October Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“Making Intervention Work.” by Morton Abramowitz and Thomas Pickering. Foreign Affairs. September/October 2008.
Has The Iraq War Torpedoed The “Responsibility To Protect”?, William F. Felice
Has The Iraq War Torpedoed The “Responsibility To Protect”?, William F. Felice
Human Rights & Human Welfare
At a U.N. World Summit in 2005, the nations of the world approved the “responsibility to protect.” This emerging principle of international law, charges each individual state with the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. If a nation fails to protect its populations from these barbarities, the nations of the world declared that they would act, through the Security Council, in accordance with the U.N. Charter, to stop the violence against innocents everywhere and protect imperiled peoples. In theory, Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter gives the member states the military …
The Responsibility To Protect And The Failure To Respond, Todd Landman
The Responsibility To Protect And The Failure To Respond, Todd Landman
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Commentators on global politics frequently observe the abject failure of states and global institutions to respond to local, regional, and global crises ranging from dramatic climatic events, humanitarian crises, warfare and violence, to the continuation of unsavoury rights-abusive regimes. In my own work in the field of the comparative politics of human rights, the types of observations that Abramowitz and Pickering make in this piece are all too common, and have led many in the past to make similar such observations that powerful states constantly engage in a grand human rights “double standard.”
Improving The Agents And Mechanisms Of Humanitarian Intervention, James Pattison
Improving The Agents And Mechanisms Of Humanitarian Intervention, James Pattison
Human Rights & Human Welfare
I agree with the broad thrust of Abramowitz and Pickering’s article. They rightly highlight the failings of the current agents and mechanisms of humanitarian intervention. The problem, however, is twofold. First, all the currently-existing interveners possess notable, and well-known, flaws. The U.N. and regional organizations suffer from serious shortfalls in funding and equipment. States frequently lack the commitment and willingness to act. And, although NATO’s operations in Bosnia and Kosovo raised hopes that it would be a willing and powerful humanitarian intervener, the reluctance of many of its members to commit troops in Afghanistan (where member states have clear interests) …
Vol. 12, No. 1: Editor's Note, Paul Tigan
Less Is More: A Limited Approach To Multi-State Management Of Interstate Groundwater Basins, James H. Davenport
Less Is More: A Limited Approach To Multi-State Management Of Interstate Groundwater Basins, James H. Davenport
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Utah Div. Of Forestry, Fire & State Lands V. United States, 528 F.3d 712 (10th Cir. 2008), Nicole A. Bonham Colby
Utah Div. Of Forestry, Fire & State Lands V. United States, 528 F.3d 712 (10th Cir. 2008), Nicole A. Bonham Colby
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Freshwater Conservation In The Context Of Energy And Climate Policy: Assessing Progress And Identifying Challenges In Oregon And The Western United States, Adell Amos
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Estate Of Hage V. United States, 82 Fed. Cl. 202 (Cl. Ct. 2008), Zachary Smith
Estate Of Hage V. United States, 82 Fed. Cl. 202 (Cl. Ct. 2008), Zachary Smith
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bowyer V. Ind. Dep't Of Natural Res., 882 N.E.2d 754 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008), Adam Hernandez
Bowyer V. Ind. Dep't Of Natural Res., 882 N.E.2d 754 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008), Adam Hernandez
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lukis V. Ray, 888 N.E.2d 325 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008), Kimberly Folk
Lukis V. Ray, 888 N.E.2d 325 (Ind. Ct. App. 2008), Kimberly Folk
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Buchholz V. Barnes County Water Bd., 755 N.W.2d 472 (N.D. 2008), Allison Graboski
Buchholz V. Barnes County Water Bd., 755 N.W.2d 472 (N.D. 2008), Allison Graboski
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fort Vannoy Irrigation Dist. Water Res. Comm'n, 188 P.3d 277 (Or. 2008), Mary Kate Finnigan
Fort Vannoy Irrigation Dist. Water Res. Comm'n, 188 P.3d 277 (Or. 2008), Mary Kate Finnigan
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
September Roundtable: Introduction
September Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
"The New Colonialists" by Michael A. Cohen, Maria Figueroa Küpçü, and Parag Khanna. Foreign Policy. July/August 2008.
Encouraging Stakeholder Participation In River Basin Management: A Case Study From The Nura River In Kazakhstan, Andrew Allan
Encouraging Stakeholder Participation In River Basin Management: A Case Study From The Nura River In Kazakhstan, Andrew Allan
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Third Act In Colorado Water Law: The Colorado Supreme Court Affirms The Concept Of Sustainable Optimum Use In Simpson V. Cotton Creek Circle, Llc, Peter C. Johnson
The Third Act In Colorado Water Law: The Colorado Supreme Court Affirms The Concept Of Sustainable Optimum Use In Simpson V. Cotton Creek Circle, Llc, Peter C. Johnson
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
Holly Doremus & A. Dan Tarlock, Water War In The Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, And Dirty Politics, Roberta Kennedy
Holly Doremus & A. Dan Tarlock, Water War In The Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, And Dirty Politics, Roberta Kennedy
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.
United States V. Robertson Terminal Warehouse, Inc., 575 F.Supp. 2d 210 (D. D.C. 2008), Brandon J. Campbell
United States V. Robertson Terminal Warehouse, Inc., 575 F.Supp. 2d 210 (D. D.C. 2008), Brandon J. Campbell
Water Law Review
No abstract provided.