The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds (International Humanitarian Law)

Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I Causes and Prevention of Conflict......Page 24
The Causes and Prevention of Violent Conflict --- Kevin P. Clements......Page 26
Policing after Conflict: Peace-Building and the Responsibility to Protect --- Andrew Goldsmith......Page 44
The Ethnic Conflict in Solomon Islands --- Chief Justice Albert Palmer......Page 72
Collective Identity and the Construction of Political Markets in Africa --- Christophe Dongmo......Page 90
Rethinking Nationality in International Humanitarian Law --- Kim Rubenstein......Page 112
The Role of International Courts and Tribunals in Relation to Armed Conflict --- Caroline Foster......Page 128
Human Rights Commissions and Religious Conflict in the Asia-Pacific Region --- Carolyn Evans......Page 168
Part II Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building......Page 186
The Role of the United Nations in Conflict Resolution and Peace-building in Timor-Leste --- His Excellency Sukehiro Hasegawa......Page 188
Lessons Learned Investigating the Well-being of Children Affected by Armed Conflict --- Colin MacMullin......Page 216
Civil War in Côte d’Ivoire: Another Perspective on the Economy and the Political Order in Africa --- Christophe Dongmo......Page 232
Some Methodological Issues with Reconstructing Justice in Post-Conflict Situations (Training Judges in Afghanistan, Congo and Timor Leste) --- Gilles Blanchi......Page 254
A Right to Family Life? Tracing Fractured Family Identities Drawing upon Law, Human Rights and Biology --- Barbara Ann Hocking and Michele Harvey-Blankenship......Page 266
Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Crimes: International Law and Peacebuilding --- Wendy Lambourne......Page 284
Part III International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and State Responsibility......Page 304
Take Heart – International Law Comes, Ever Comes --- The Hon Justice Michael Kirby......Page 306
International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and the Responsibility of States for Choice of Forum and Effective Enforcement --- Her Excellency Louise Arbour......Page 322
Challenges for the International Criminal Court: Terrorism, Immunity Agreements and National Trials --- Gillian Triggs......Page 338
The Sexual Violence Jurisprudence of The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: The Silence Has Been Broken but There’s Still a Lot to Shout About --- Carrie McDougall......Page 354
Political Constraints upon the International Criminal Court --- Roderic Pitty......Page 370
Redressing the Wrongs of The International Criminal Justice System --- Stuart Beresford......Page 390
The War on Terror: Self-defence or Aggression? --- Alex Conte......Page 416
When the Law Breaker Becomes the Law Maker Susan Anderson......Page 436
What Price Justice? Prosecuting Crimes Post-Conflict --- Geoff Gilbert......Page 460
Strengthening Enforcement of International Criminal Law --- Grant Niemann......Page 482
Redressing Partial Justice – A Possible Role for Civil Society --- Ustinia Dolgopol......Page 498
Could Systematic Sexual Violence against Women during War Time Have Been Prevented? – Lessons from the Japanese Case of “Comfort Women” Etsuro Totsuka......Page 522
Part IV The Role of the UN, Humanitarian Organisations and Peacekeepers in Post Conflict Situations......Page 538
The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Susan Harris Rimmer......Page 540
Peacekeepers in Post-Conflict Situations – Upholding the Rule of Law --- David Letts......Page 552
The Role of Non-State Actors in International Conflict: Legal Identity, Delinquency and Political Representation --- Christopher Harding......Page 570
What Crisis at the United Nations? --- Stephen Bouwhuis......Page 594
The Role, Rights and Responsibilities of UNHCR in Situations of Acute Crisis --- Geoff Gilbert......Page 608
International Law and the Concept of Human Security --- Barbara von Tigerstrom......Page 622
List of Contributors......Page 640
Index......Page 646