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Ebola Does Not Fall From The Sky: Structural Violence & International Responsibility, Matiangai Sirleaf
Ebola Does Not Fall From The Sky: Structural Violence & International Responsibility, Matiangai Sirleaf
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article challenges the conventional understanding that international crises are limited to instances of direct physical violence. Instead, it argues that the disproportionate distribution of infectious diseases like Ebola is a form of structural violence that warrants international intervention. In the field of global public health, structural violence is a concept used to describe health inequities and to draw attention to the differential risks for infection in the Global South, and among those already infected, for adverse consequences including death, injury, and illness. This Article clarifies how the concept of structural violence can be operationalized in law. It illustrates the …