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Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages : Towards an International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Forcible Displacement.
This book analyses the anthropological, historical, and legal contours of the crime of forcible displacement and proposes specific measures that the international community can adopt in order to prevent and/or punish the perpetration of the crime in the future.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2012.
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| Colección: | International humanitarian law series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Forcible DisplacementThroughout the Ages; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About the Authors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The Origins of Humanity; Chapter Two: Examples of Forcible Displacement; 1. The Sack of Troy: A Mytho-Historic Account; 2. The Babylonian Captivity: Displacement in the Ancient World; 3. The Muslim Conquest of North Africa: The Dispersement of the Berbers; 4. The Incas: An Early Example of Mass Population Transfer for Territorial Gain; 5. The Moors: Expulsion for Religious Purposes.
- 6. The Highland Clearances: Displacement in the Name of Economic Progress7. Aborigines in Australia: A Story of Land Dispossession and Violence; 8. Crimean Tatars in the former USSR: Ethnically Motivated Displacement in the Name of Politics; 9. The Bangladesh War of Independence: Conflict and Displacement; 10. The Three Gorges Dam: Justifying Displacement in the Name of Progress; Chapter Three: Law of Forcible Displacement; 1. Definitions; 2. The Nuremberg Trials: Early Attempts to Legally Define Forcible Displacement; 3. Humanitarian Law.
- A. The Hague Conventions as Progenitors of the Geneva Conventionsb. The Geneva Conventions; 4. Human Rights Law; a. The Right to Freedom of Movement and Residence; b. The Genocide Convention; c. The Refugee Convention; 5. Regional Human Rights Treaties; 6. Soft Law Instruments; 7. Security Council Resolutions; 8. The International Court of Justice; Chapter Four: The Modern Tribunals; 1. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: The Great Experiment; a. Forcible Displacement as Crimes under the ICTY Statute.
- B. Development of ICTY Jurisprudence Ante the Stakic Appeal Judgementc. The Stakic Appeal Judgement and the Categorisation of Deportation and Forcible Transfer; i. Forced Character of the Displacement; ii. Cross-Border Transfer; iii. Intended Permanency of the Displacement; d. The Naletilic and Martinovic Appeal Judgement; e. The Miloševic Generals Trial; f. General Principles Emerging from the ICTY's Adjudication of Forcible Displacement; 2. The Rwanda and Sierra Leone Tribunals; a. The Special Court for Sierra Leone; b. The Interational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- 3. The International Criminal CourtChapter Five: Shifting the Displacement Paradigm from Compartmentalisation Towards Inclusion; 1. The Debate upon IDP Protection; 2. The Debate upon the Revitalisation of Refugee Law; 3. Displacement as an Element of Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide; 4. Case Studies of Confl ict-Related Displacement; 5. Development-Induced Displacement; Chapter Six: Broadening the Concept of Forcible Displacement to Include Development-Induced Displacement; 1. Development and Its Costs; 2. The Inclusion of Development-Induced Displacement within the Human Rights Law Discourse.