A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood emerges as a major theme in the ethos of conflict of societies involved in intractable conflict and is a fundamental part of the collective memory of the conflict. This sense is defined as a mindset shared by group members that results from a perceived intentional harm with severe consequences, inflicted on the collective by another group. This harm is viewed as undeserved, unjust and immoral, and one that the group could not prevent. The article analyses the nature of the self-perceived collective sense of victimhood in the conflict, its antecedents, the functions that it fulfils for the society and the consequences that result from this view.

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A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts

Although human trafficking has a long and ignoble history, it is only recently that trafficking has become a major political issue for states and the international community and the subject of detailed international rules. Anne T. Gallagher calls on her direct experience working within the United Nations to chart the development of new international laws on this issue. She links these rules to the international law of state responsibility as well as key norms of international human rights law, transnational criminal law, refugee law and international criminal law, in the process identifying and explaining the major legal obligations of states with respect to preventing trafficking, protecting and supporting victims, and prosecuting perpetrators. This book is a groundbreaking work: a unique and valuable resource for policymakers, advocates, practitioners and scholars working in this controversial and important field.

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The International Law of Human Trafficking

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Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and operate border crossings. In this volume Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen examines the impact of these new practices on refugees' access to asylum. A systematic analysis is provided of the reach and limits of international refugee law when migration control is carried out extraterritorially or by non-state actors. State practice from around the globe and case law from all the major human rights institutions are discussed. The arguments are further linked to wider debates in the fields of human rights, general international law and political science. (Less)

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Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

International Law and New Wars examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan International law, largely constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rests to a great extent on the outmoded concept of war drawn from European experience - inter-state clashes involving battles between regular and identifiable armed forces The book shows how different approaches are associated with different interpretations of international law, and, in some cases, this has dangerously weakened the legal restraints on war established after 1945 It puts forward a practical case for what it defines as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law

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International Law and New Wars

The article addresses the issue of whether conduct in international peace operations is attrib- utable to the troop contributing states or to the United Nations, taking the European Court of Human Rights ' admissibility decision in the Behrami and Saramati cases as a point of ref- erence. The Court concluded that conduct by UNMIK and KFOR troops in Kosovo is attrib- utable to the United Nations. The article examines the content of the ' ultimate authority and control ' test that is applied by the Court, and argues that the Court should have taken a different approach. The Court's test is in the author's view diffi cult to reconcile with the International Law Commission's work on the responsibility of international organizations, with United Nations practice on responsibility for unlawful conduct in peace operations, and with the Court's own jurisprudence concerning attribution of conduct to the state. The author argues further that the Court's arguments are incomplete even if the Court's approach were to be considered correct. The article concludes by expressing concern that the Court's deci- sion, when seen in connection with previous case law, in practice renders the European Con- vention on Human Rights irrelevant in international peace operations.

Attribution of Conduct in Peace Operations: The ‘Ultimate Authority and Control’ Test

There is an abundance of textbooks available in human rights law, and it is difficult for new publications to offer something genuinely new to the field. However, this book does precisely that – it...

The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

1. Introduction and overview 2. The emerging relevance of human rights law in UN-mandated peace operations 3. The other side of the coin: the alleged inappropriateness of applying human rights treaties in UN-mandated peace operations 4. The argument of non-applicability ratione personae 5. The argument of non-applicability ratione loci 6. The applicability of human rights law during armed conflicts 7. Derogations 8. Norm conflicts between UN Security Council mandates and human rights treaties 9. Legal challenges relating to the interrelationship between troop contributing states 10. Selected issues relating to the application of substantive provisions 11. Conclusions.

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The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers

PART I THE NORMATIVE SCOPE OF PEACE AND ITS EXCEPTIONS PART II PRECONDITIONS OF PEACE PART III CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN THE PROMOTION AND SAFEGUARDING OF PEACE PART IV INSTITUTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF PEACE

Promoting Peace Through International Law

1. Introduction by the editors: is there a 'principle of humanity' in international humanitarian law? Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen, Camilla Guldahl Cooper and Gro Nystuen Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 2. The main epochs of modern international humanitarian law since 1864 and their related dominant legal constructions Robert Kolb 3. The principle of proportionality Yoram Dinstein 4. The Geneva Conventions and the dichotomy between international and non-international armed conflict - curse or blessing for the 'principle of humanity'? Cecilie Hellestveit 5. A 'principle of humanity' or a 'principle of human-rightism'? Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen 6. The principle of humanity in the development of 'special protection' for children in armed conflict: 60 years beyond the Geneva Conventions and 20 years beyond the Convention on the Rights of the Child Katarina Mansson Part II. Nordic Experiences: 7. Military occupation of Eastern Karelia by Finland in 1941-4: was international law pushed aside? Lauri Hannikainen 8. The occupied and the occupant: the case of Norway Sigrid Redse Johansen 9. Multinational peace operations forces involved in armed conflict: who are the parties? Ola Engdahl 10. Detention in UN peace operations Peter Vedel Kessing 11. Humanity and the discourse of legality Rikke Ishoy 12. Implementation in practice: 60 years of dissemination and other implementation efforts in a Norwegian perspective Arne Willy Dahl and Camilla Guldahl Cooper Part III. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions: is there a 'principle of humanity' in international humanitarian law? Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen and Camilla Guldahl Cooper.

Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen

Papers

Attribution of Conduct in Peace Operations: The ‘Ultimate Authority and Control’ Test

The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers

Promoting Peace Through International Law

Searching for a 'Principle of Humanity' in International Humanitarian Law