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31 Jan Weekend Roundup: January 24-31, 2015
...of the hostage situation between ISIS and Jordan/Japan, Jens weighed in on hostages and human dignity. Jens also reported on yesterday’s decision at the ICTY Appeals Chamber, upholding genocide charges in the case of The Prosecutor v. Popovic et al. related to the massacre at Srebrenica in July, 1995. Duncan highlighted his newest paper, this time he’s written An Intersubjective Treaty Power and a guest post came in from Nimrod Karin, responding to Kevin’s critique of his Just Security posts (here and here), about whether Palestine’s joining the ICC amounted...29 Oct Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 29, 2012
...pictures of restricted Israeli areas. Iran also claims that it has developed much more advanced drone technology than the Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah and shot down by Israeli forces earlier this month. EU governments are set to debate spending cuts of 50 billion euro later this week. A recent poll showed that an overwhelming majority of Catalans would like a referendum on independence from Spain. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is going ahead with his plan of seeking upgraded observer status for Palestine in the UN General Assembly next month....11 Feb Ahmadinejad on the Cartoon Controversy
For Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad it’s all about Israel. The cartoons were not an act of freedom, they were a desperate act of hostages. This week Ahmadinejad used the cartoon controversy to blame the United States and Europe for “being hostages of the Zionists.” He then criticized the double-standard of the freedom to insult the prophet while imposing criminal sanctions on those who deny the Holocaust. “I ask everybody in the world not to let a group of Zionists who failed in Palestine … to insult the prophet. Now in...08 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A U.S. drone strike killed eight people in northwestern Pakistan, the latest in a series of drone attacks that come as a retired U.S. general Stanley McChrystal warns their overuse may threaten American foreign policy goals. The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic resumed in The Hague on Monday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked that government-issued documents, such as passports, include the words “State of Palestine” instead of “Palestinian Authority,” though there will be no rush to replace ID cards or passports to avoid confrontation with Israel....
14 Jun In Serbia, Justice Overruled: 25 Years after NATO Intervention, a Pass for Atrocity Crimes
[Fred Abrahams covered the Kosovo conflict for Human Rights Watch . He wrote the book Modern Albania and co-wrote A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo . Marija Ristic covered Serbian war crimes trials as a journalist for local and international media.] This April, a modest courtroom in Belgrade, Serbia, offered a lens into the global debate on justice for atrocity crimes. The case dealt with mass killings in Kosovo committed 25 years ago but the topic has relevance for Sudan, Ukraine, Israel/Palestine and other conflicts today. In the dimly...
24 Jan International Law’s Invisible Frames Symposium: A Call for Critical Self-Reflection
...– the manner in which issues or problems are presented shapes our decision-making process; it impacts how legal norms are negotiated, interpreted, and applied (chapter 2). This is something we are no doubt intuitively aware of – the way we present a problem will have an impact the outcome –, but which we perhaps do not think about consciously. Being aware of how these frames work can, amongst others, provide insight on legal strategies. For instance, if Palestine wants to convincingly argue before the ICJ that the monetary gold principle...24 Oct Humanity’s Law: A Few Opening Thoughts
...in the Balkans? How about the intervention in Libya? Did the international legal community jump the gun in threatening Ghadaffi and his family with criminal indictments, taking off the table options such as amnesties or exile that might have led to an earlier and less bloody regime change in Libya? Have the competing allegations of war crimes and humanitarian violations made in harder rather than easier to have meaningful peace talks between Israel and Palestine, distracting from the underlying political claims at issue? I look forward to hearing your views....03 Nov Zivotofsky and the Disaggregated State
...policy the wrong way, not knowing that Congress is out to lunch and that US policy has not changed. That’s where the risk comes in. It’s what makes this case less than ideal for adapting the Constitution to the new global dynamic. The Middle East is a throwback to the old world. Arguments like Noah Feldman’s here still make a lot of sense when it comes to Israel-Palestine, even if they don’t make so much sense anywhere else. But the risk may be small enough that the Court is willing...
07 Oct Rethinking Atrocity Justice: From Western Exceptionalism to True Universalism
...an unnamed senior leader in the context of arrest warrants being requested for Israeli leaders that “this court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin.” Of course, the fact that the ICC ultimately did proceed to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant demonstrates that occasionally the wheels of justice move forward even in the face of resistance from key players in the West. Doing so, however, can come with a heavy price for those involved (see here, here and here regarding US sanctions on ICC...
26 Apr Symposium on Boyd van Dijk’s Preparing for War: The Geneva Conventions and the Future of International Humanitarian Law
...pressure from the ICRC and France (and given the absence of supporters of the arch-occupier paradigm in the Conference), rather than blocking the debate, the UK “started thinking about how to use it for its own purposes while attenuating its effects on Britain’s interests in the context of growing East-West tensions and the violent insurgency in Palestine” (p. 75). In order to achieve progress, the ICRC, in turn, sought to balance these concerns with the human rights demands of Nazi victims. The result was a draft that incorporated “only a...