The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies After Conflict

Great Expectations
Herausgeber: Bowden, Brett; Farrall, Jeremy; Charlesworth, Hilary

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Produktbeschreibung

International law can create great expectations in those seeking to rebuild societies that have been torn apart by conflict. For outsiders, international law can mandate or militate against intervention, bolstering or undermining the legitimacy of intervention. International legal principles promise equality, justice and human rights. Yet international law's promises are difficult to fulfil. This volume of essays investigates the phenomenon of post-conflict state-building and the engagement of international law in this enterprise. It draws together original essays by scholars and practitioners who consider the many roles international law can play in rehabilitating societies after conflict. The essays explore troubled zones across the world, from Afghanistan to Africa's Great Lakes region, and from Timor-Leste to the Balkans. They identify a range of possibilities for international law in tempering, regulating, legitimating or undermining efforts to rebuild post-conflict societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781107406643
• ISBN-10: 1107406641
• Artikelnr.: 35891307

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall; 1. The
'state-building enterprise': legal doctrine, progress narratives and
managerial governance Outi Korhonen; 2. Democratisation, state-building and
politics as technology Nehal Bhuta; 3. International law, human rights and
the transformative occupation of Iraq Peter G. Danchin; 4. Defining
democracy in international institutions Brett Bowden and Hilary
Charlesworth; 5. Democracy and legitimation: challenges in the
reconstitution of political processes in Afghanistan William Maley; 6.
Impossible expectations? The UN security council's promotion of the rule of
law after conflict Jeremy Farrall; 7. Legal pluralism and the challenge of
building the rule of law in post-conflict states - a case study of
Timor-Leste Laura Grenfell; 8. From paper to practice: the role of treaty
ratification post-conflict Helen Durham; 9. Selective universality? Human
rights accountability of the UN in post-conflict operations Annemarie
Devereux; 10. Security starts with the law: the role of international law
in the protection of women's security post-conflict Amy Maguire; 11.
Grappling in the Great Lakes: the challenges of international justice in
Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda Phil Clark; 12.
Conclusion: hope and humility for weavers with international law John
Braithwaite.