The role of international law in rebuilding societies after conflict : great expectations / edited by Brett Bowden, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowden, Brett, 1968- editor.

Charlesworth, Hilary, editor.

Farrall, Jeremy Matam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postwar reconstruction--Congresses.

Postwar reconstruction.

Rule of law--Congresses.

Rule of law.

International and municipal law--Congresses.

International and municipal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The 'state-building enterprise' : legal doctrine, progress narratives and managerial governance / Outi Korhonen

Democratisation, state-building and politics as technology / Nehal Bhuta

International law, human rights and the transformative occupation of Iraq / Peter G. Danchin

Defining democracy in international institutions / Brett Bowden and Hilary Charlesworth

Democracy and legitimation : challenges in the reconstitution of political processes in Afghanistan / William maley

Impossible expectations? the UN Security Council's promotion of the rule of law after conflict / Jeremy Farrall

Legal pluralism and the challenge of building the rule of law in post-conflict states : a case study of Timor-Leste / Laura Grenfell

From paper to practice : the role of treaty ratification post-conflict / Helen Durham

Selective universality? : human-rights accountability of the UN in post-conflict operations / Annemarie Devereux

'Security starts with the law' : the role of international law in the protection of women's security post-conflict / Amy Maguire

Grappling in the great lakes : the challenges of international justice in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda / Phil Clark.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-314) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18968-3

1-283-33112-8

0-511-53405-1

9786613331120

0-511-57647-1

0-511-53436-1

0-511-53266-0

0-511-53175-3

0-511-53357-8

OCLC:

609834172