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Author: Margaret M. deGuzman Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198786158 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 241
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The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they "shock the conscience of humanity." From decisions about how to define crimes and when to exercise jurisdiction, to limitations on defences and sentencing determinations, gravity rhetoric permeates the discourse of international criminal law. Yet the concept of gravity has thus far remained highly undertheorized. This book uncovers the consequences for the regime's legitimacy of its heavy reliance on the poorly understood idea of gravity. Margaret M. deGuzman argues that gravity's ambiguity may at times enable a thin consensus to emerge around decisions, such as the creation of an institution or the definition of a crime, but that, increasingly, it undermines efforts to build a strong and resilient global justice community. The book suggests ways to reconceptualize gravity in line with global values and goals to better support the long-term legitimacy of international criminal law.
Author: Margaret M. deGuzman Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198786158 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they "shock the conscience of humanity." From decisions about how to define crimes and when to exercise jurisdiction, to limitations on defences and sentencing determinations, gravity rhetoric permeates the discourse of international criminal law. Yet the concept of gravity has thus far remained highly undertheorized. This book uncovers the consequences for the regime's legitimacy of its heavy reliance on the poorly understood idea of gravity. Margaret M. deGuzman argues that gravity's ambiguity may at times enable a thin consensus to emerge around decisions, such as the creation of an institution or the definition of a crime, but that, increasingly, it undermines efforts to build a strong and resilient global justice community. The book suggests ways to reconceptualize gravity in line with global values and goals to better support the long-term legitimacy of international criminal law.
Author: Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ISBN: 9004255079 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 753
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This volume is an updated and revised version of the General Course on Public International Law delivered by the Author at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2005. Professor Cançado Trindade, Doctor honoris causa of seven Latin American Universities in distinct countries, was for many years Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and President of that Court for half a decade (1999-2004). He is currently Judge of the International Court of Justice; he is also Member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law, as well as of the Institut de Droit International, and of the Brazilian Academy of Juridical Letters.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004484086 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 431
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The traumatic experiences of persecution and genocide have changed traditional views of literature. The discussion of historical truth versus aesthetic autonomy takes an unexpected turn when confronted with the experiences of the victims of the Holocaust, the Gulag Archipelago, the Cultural Revolution, Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. The question is whether - and, if so, to what extent - literary imagination may depart from historical truth. In general, the first reactions to traumatic historical experiences are autobiographical statements, written by witnesses of the events. However, the second and third generations, the sons and daughters of the victims as well as of the victimizers, tend to free themselves from this generic restriction and claim their own way of remembering the history of their parents and grandparents. They explore their own limits of representation, and feel free to use a variety of genres; they turn to either realist or postmodernist, ironic or grotesque modes of writing.
Author: Sidney D. Drell Publisher: Hoover Press ISBN: 0817918965 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
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Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on Sakharov's life and principles, this book tells the compelling story of his metamorphosis from a distinguished physical scientist into a courageous, outspoken dissident humanitarian voice.His extraordinary life saw him go from playing the leading role in designing and building the most powerful thermonuclear weapon (the so-called hydrogen bomb) ever exploded to demanding an end to the testing of such weapons and their eventual elimination. The essays detail his transformation, as he appealed first to his scientific colleagues abroad and then to mankind at large, for solidarity in resolving the growing threats to human survival—many of which stemmed from science and technology. Ultimately, the distinguished contributors show how the work and thinking of this eminent Russian nuclear physicist and courageous human rights campaigner can help find solutions to the nuclear threats of today.
Author: Hendrik Stoker Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268103208 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 468
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Conscience: Phenomena and Theories was first published in German in 1925 as a dissertation by Hendrik G. Stoker under the title Das Gewissen: Erscheinungsformen und Theorien. It was received with acclaim by philosophers at the time, including Stoker’s dissertation mentor Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Herbert Spielberg, as quite possibly the single most comprehensive philosophical treatment of conscience and as a major contribution in the phenomenological tradition. Stoker’s study offers a detailed historical survey of the concept of conscience from ancient times through the Middle Ages up to more modern thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud, and Cardinal Newman. Stoker analyzes not only the concept of conscience in academic theory but also various types of theories of conscience. His work offers insightful discussions of problems and theories related to the genesis, reliability, and validity of conscience. In particular, Stoker analyzes the moral, spiritual, and psychological phenomena connected with bad conscience, which in turn illuminate the concept of conscience. The book is deeply informed by the traditions of western Christianity. Available for the first time in an accessible English translation, with an introduction by its translator and editor, Philip E. Blosser, it promises to be of interest to philosophers, especially in Christian philosophy and phenomenology, and also to all those interested in moral and religious psychology, ethics, religion, and theology.
Author: Joshua P. Chowritmootoo Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781436356992 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 120
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Why is there so oftentimes violence in the family? Why is the home no longer a safe haven for so many? Why is the sanctity of the church place and schools breached with seemingly no compunction? Why has the twentieth century been marked more by humankind inhumanity to humanity rather than the peaceful use of the awesome scientifi c development and other innovations in eradicating poverty and diseases? Why is the child often lost in the selfi shness of parents and other adults, and the old and indigent is without care? Why the callous disregard of offi cialdom to heed the suffering of the unfortunate caught in the trauma of natural disasters that beset so many places the world over? Why it is always mostly the poor caught in the binds of drugs and diseases such as AIDS? Where would have been the joys of my life had the convenience of aborting the unborn unconscionably realized? Why must pockets of the world's population be committed to bigoted sectarian religiousness and its resulting atrocities that allow no other accommodation? Why would not fi nding ways to alleviate persistent poverty and eradicate ignorance among their people be better ways to serve these sections of humanity? For the foregoing and other questions, the media, policy makers and academia are not in short supply of researches and reports on the affl ictions in our society and other parts of the world. Why then another attempt to bring to bear on the public mind, my impressions of social issues, and worse yet, in the neglected medium of little-read poetry? I am not sure, but I take consolation as I am reminded of Jeanne Claude, the "wrap" artist who said to the effect that an artist does what he or she does for him or herself; if someone else appreciates the work, that's a bonus; and again, Walt Whitman's "The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of humanity and nature." In 1990, I began my American teaching experience in West Dallas, the Projects. In this seat of persistent poverty among African Americans was born "Awakening," and my personal reawakening of the social ills that beset my world of the classroom, the neighborhood, my society and the rest of the world. I, with a conscience, share my thoughts with you.
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