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International Law

2016

Genocide

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Reflections On The Judgment Of The International Court Of Justice In Bosnia’S Genocide Case Against Serbia And Montenegro, Susana Sácouto Nov 2016

Reflections On The Judgment Of The International Court Of Justice In Bosnia’S Genocide Case Against Serbia And Montenegro, Susana Sácouto

Susana L. SáCouto

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Genocide And The Eroticization Of Death: Law, Violence, And Moral Purity, Tawia Baidoe Ansah Feb 2016

Genocide And The Eroticization Of Death: Law, Violence, And Moral Purity, Tawia Baidoe Ansah

Tawia B. Ansah

In this article, I ask: What is the relationship between law and morality in response to mass violence and suffering abroad? How does law shape and determine our moral response to mass death and suffering? We repose in the law itself a desire to define the moral and the ethical parameters of legal-political action. Thus, when faced with mass violence and suffering abroad, law functions as a proxy for morality. The legal prohibition under the Genocide Convention defines morality, or cabins the variety of moral responses into a single and universally applicable ethical-legal norm of response to genocide. The moral …


Sovereignty, Identity, And The Apparatus Of Death, Tawia Baidoe Ansah Feb 2016

Sovereignty, Identity, And The Apparatus Of Death, Tawia Baidoe Ansah

Tawia B. Ansah

Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, the government issued broad new laws outlawing the use of ethnic categories, with a view to uniting all Rwandans under a single Rwandan identity. This self-erasure of ethnic identity is deployed primarily within the borders of the state, to enable reconciliation after the genocide in 1994. Outside the borders, the state deploys ethnic identity as one of the rationales for its cross-border wars (in the Democratic Republic of Congo).