In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Author: Charli Carpenter

26 May

[Charli Carpenter is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Legal Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst specializing in international law and human security, and Director of Human Security Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative focused on science in the human interest.] Giovanni Mantilla has written what will likely become a landmark history of the evolution of the Geneva Conventions. His monograph is simultaneously a detailed diplomatic history and an analytical argument about the power and...

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18 Apr

[Charli Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She blogs at Duck of Minerva.] One of the most curious aspects of the Kony2012 campaign is its backing by an important and powerful public servant, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. In publicly endorsing the campaign, Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, has espoused a powerful causal...

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