The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
Introduction......Page 33
I. A social contract?......Page 34
II. How wonderful is the artificiality of the state?12......Page 36
III. The artificial state......Page 37
IV. The state as a sum of its parts......Page 39
V. Nation states......Page 41
VI. Evaluation of state governance......Page 43
VII. Creation of warm monsters......Page 44
VIII. The performing state......Page 47
Case study: Independence of Finland......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 53
I. Politics as technology and imperial liberal reform......Page 56
II. Democracy as metonymy, good governance as techné......Page 62
III. From modernisation to transitology......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 77
Introduction......Page 82
I. The gift of formalism in international law......Page 84
A. Formalism and instrumentalism......Page 88
II. The law of occupatio bellica......Page 91
III. The law of international human rights......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 106
Introduction......Page 108
I. The concept of democracy in international institutions......Page 110
II. How adequate are the international definitions of democracy?......Page 118
III. Can we define democracy at the international level?......Page 125
Introduction......Page 129
I. Concepts of democracy......Page 131
II. State-building and legitimation......Page 135
III. The right to democratic governance......Page 139
IV. Limits of electoral processes......Page 142
V. Transition challenges in Afghanistan......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 150
Introduction......Page 152
I. The contested nature of the rule of law, its enduring appeal, and its attractiveness after conflict......Page 153
A. The contested nature of the rule of law......Page 154
B. The rule of law’s enduring appeal......Page 155
C. The attractiveness of the rule of law after conflict......Page 156
II. The rise of the rule of law in the UN Security Council and UN peacekeeping......Page 157
III. Transforming the rule of law from political ideal into concrete outcomes......Page 161
ii. Ending impunity for crimes......Page 162
v. Principled governance......Page 163
B. The UN Secretariat’s approach to the rule of law......Page 164
ii. DPKO’s conception of the rule of law......Page 165
i. The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti......Page 166
ii. The United Nations Mission in Liberia......Page 168
IV. Between ideal and reality......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 173
Introduction......Page 175
A. History and key problems......Page 177
B. The applicable law......Page 178
II. International law......Page 181
i. Pillar 1: International human-rights law......Page 182
ii. Pillar 2: International criminal law......Page 184
III. Customary law......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 194
Introduction......Page 195
I. Treaties......Page 197
II. Practical implementation......Page 198
III. Finding the ‘local’ within the ‘global’......Page 202
IV. Location of power......Page 205
V. Why states ratify......Page 206
VI. States that do not ratify......Page 209
VII. International community response......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 213
Introduction......Page 216
I. Identifying the problem......Page 217
II. Gaps in the existing legal framework......Page 221
A. Handling of sexual exploitation and abuse......Page 226
B. Kosovo......Page 228
ii. National oversight bodies......Page 229
IV. Moving towards greater accountability?......Page 233
Conclusion......Page 235
Introduction......Page 236
I. Women’s voices in post-conflict societies......Page 241
B. The constitutive force of law in post-conflict society......Page 242
C. Failures of implementation and the limits of law’s power......Page 243
D. Legal silences......Page 244
E. Violent laws......Page 245
A. The role of law in transitional-justice theory......Page 247
B. Theory of ‘law’s violence’......Page 249
A. International law, women’s rights, and women’s security......Page 251
i. Lebanon......Page 256
ii. Northern Ireland......Page 257
iii. South Africa......Page 258
Conclusion......Page 260
Introduction......Page 262
A. Rwanda......Page 264
B. The DRC......Page 267
C. Uganda......Page 269
II. From concurrence to complementarity: Shifting relations between international courts and states......Page 272
A. Defining institutional role......Page 274
B. Relations with domestic governments......Page 277
C. Co-ordination with domestic transitional-justice institutions......Page 281
D. Relations with affected populations......Page 283
Conclusion......Page 286
I. Imperial international law......Page 288
II. Humble international law......Page 292
III. What to expect of international law......Page 294
IV. Strands of legitimacy, strands of democracy......Page 297
V. The problematic Western historical model of state-building and democracy......Page 301
VI. Reconstruction, transformation and evidence......Page 303
Select Bibliography......Page 307
Index......Page 333