The Somalia Reconciliation Conference led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD... more The Somalia Reconciliation Conference led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in Eastern Africa, is focusing on creating a basis for dialogue as a means of reaching peace and stability in the region (Somali Reconciliation Conference, 2003; IGAD, 2002). This paper deals with the critical implications with focusing on dialogue as a means of promoting long-term peace.
Games States Play: Towards an Anthropology of International Law Keywords: international legal ant... more Games States Play: Towards an Anthropology of International Law Keywords: international legal anthropology, deconstruction, speech acts, liberalism, law and politics, international law and national interest. Abstract Games States Play is an attempt to assess the political use by states of contemporary international law. The aim is to move towards an anthropological informed understanding of how international law works and why its significance in world politics and conflicts is declining, ignored and more subject to national political interests than being a an International Rule of Law. The article explores the political and theoretical domains of international legal structures, and deconstruct the boundaries between political and ideological frameworks and its influences on international law and state action. It is an attempt to show that the ideal of a world order based on the rule of law cannot sustain its proposition, as social and political conflicts must, and still are, solved ...
The question of culture in the international human rights discourse has since the adoption of the... more The question of culture in the international human rights discourse has since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 been relatively marginal, but have recently taken new ...
The Somalia Reconciliation Conference led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD... more The Somalia Reconciliation Conference led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in Eastern Africa, is focusing on creating a basis for dialogue as a means of reaching peace and stability in the region (Somali Reconciliation Conference, 2003; IGAD, 2002). This paper deals with the critical implications with focusing on dialogue as a means of promoting long-term peace.
Games States Play: Towards an Anthropology of International Law Keywords: international legal ant... more Games States Play: Towards an Anthropology of International Law Keywords: international legal anthropology, deconstruction, speech acts, liberalism, law and politics, international law and national interest. Abstract Games States Play is an attempt to assess the political use by states of contemporary international law. The aim is to move towards an anthropological informed understanding of how international law works and why its significance in world politics and conflicts is declining, ignored and more subject to national political interests than being a an International Rule of Law. The article explores the political and theoretical domains of international legal structures, and deconstruct the boundaries between political and ideological frameworks and its influences on international law and state action. It is an attempt to show that the ideal of a world order based on the rule of law cannot sustain its proposition, as social and political conflicts must, and still are, solved ...
The question of culture in the international human rights discourse has since the adoption of the... more The question of culture in the international human rights discourse has since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 been relatively marginal, but have recently taken new ...
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