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23 Aug Guest Post: Do drones cause fewer civilian casualties than traditional combat?
...and 2012 battles with Hamas in Gaza, the 1999 Russian war with Chechen rebels, and the final stages of the struggle between Sri Lanka and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) all killed more civilians than combatants, in some cases substantially more. Although the U.S. has not caused civilian casualties at rates that high, there have been memorable examples of civilian casualties in each of the recent conflicts in which we have been involved, and those casualties were caused by all kinds of weapons systems. The 1991 Gulf War had the Al-Firdos...09 Jul Managing Intractable Conflicts: Lessons from Moldova and Cyprus
...I contributed a chapter focusing on Moldova. (Long-time readers of this blog may have read my analyses–such as this post–concerning the Transnistrian conflict.) In preparation of the report, we met in June 2012 in Istanbul and in Northern Cyprus with policy experts and representatives of various parties. In September 2012 we reconvened and had meetings and interviews in Chisinau (Moldova’s capital) and in Transnistria. The final report, Managing Intractable Conflicts: Lessons from Moldova and Cyprus, was recently published by GPoT and is available as a .pdf via this link. ...19 Dec Zero Dark Thirty
Today marked the limited release in the United States of the already much heralded new film on the United States’ hunt for Osama bin Laden. I have not yet seen the film and won’t comment on it until I do. But I do want to at least pass along this remarkable open letter issued today by 1 Republican and 2 Democratic Senators regarding the film’s depiction of torture. December 19, 2012 Mr. Michael Lynton Chairman and CEO Sony Pictures Entertainment 10202 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232-3195 Dear Mr....
29 Sep On the Anvil: The Netherlands v. Syrian Arab Republic at the International Court of Justice?
...genuine attempts at negotiation, which had failed, prior to approaching the court. In the Judgment of 20 July 2012 in Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) – dealing squarely with CAT – the ICJ examined the next step specific to this convention, arbitration. The court held that two requests for arbitration made by Belgium that were ignored by Senegal would fulfill the criteria for failure to “organize the arbitration”. Therefore, it is not necessary that the arbitration actually has to be undertaken – but...
22 Dec East Africa Should Back Justice for South Sudan: Neighboring Countries Should Support Hybrid Court
...the pillars of the draft East African Community Protocol on Good Governance is access to justice. Further, the EAC Conflict Management Act of 2012 created a panel that, among other duties, promotes the peaceful resolution of conflicts. This law requires member states to co-ordinate post-conflict management. The framework provides an opportunity for EAC members to support accountability for abuses in South Sudan as an effort to quell retaliation resulting from unadressed injustices. The 2017-2012 EAC priorities such as promoting regional security and good governance and regional economic cooperation can benefit...
04 Mar Blocking SWIFT in Russia
...providing financial data to US Treasury, along with a European equivalent in the form of the EU Terrorist Finance Tracking System. Then came the Iran nuclear standoff. In the late 2000’s Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology and weapons testing led to multilateral sanctions, including Resolutions issued by the UN Security Council prohibiting the provision of certain “financial services” to Iran. By 2012, the EU enacted its own more aggressive sanctions package, including an oil embargo, while the US imposed measures including the threat of secondary sanctions against those willing to...27 Dec New Cambridge Journal of International & Comparative Law
...February 2012. Successful authors will be notified in April 2012 as to whether they will be published in one of our two substantive issues for the year 2011-12. Manuscripts must be submitted via our website – click on ‘Submissions’ at www.cjicl.org.uk – by the closing date. Please see below for further information. In addition to a call for submissions for the Journal, the Editorial Board would like to invite authors to submit c. 1000 word commentaries for our new online blog (available at www.cjicl.org.uk), by e-mailing them to: blog@cjicl.org.uk with...05 Apr The Situation in Palestine
[Michael Kearney is an LSE Fellow in the Law Department of the London School of Economics] Michael Kearney guest blogs with us to share his knowledge of the Palestinian situation as an external consultant for the Palestinian human rights NGO Al-Haq “I heard from the Americans,” Abbas reports. “They said, ‘If you will have your state, you will go to the ICC. We don’t want you to go the ICC.'” In a striking decision, issued shortly before he is due to step down in June 2012, Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo of the...04 Feb AJIL Symposium: Can the ECOWAS Court Revive Regionalism Through Human Rights?
...not a constant position of the ECCJ, at least not before the RADDHO case in 2012. The Court successively granted access in 2010 (SERAP Education and Environment cases), refused access in 2011 (Makpror, Gbagbo, and Others v Côte d’Ivoire; CDD v Niger), and granted access again in 2012 (RADDHO v Senegal). Where it granted access, the Court did so on the basis of actio popularis and/or public interest. Refusal of access was reasoned by the fact that the Complainant was not personally aggrieved and lacked authority to represent the ‘people’....