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Ethnic cleansing : a legal qualification /
This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of ethnic cleansing are, first and foremost, a criminal issue and must therefore be precisely placed within the context of the international law order. In particular, it addresses the question of the specificity of the act and its relation to existing categories of international crime, exploring the relationship between ethnic cleansing and genocide, but also extending to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The book goes on to show how the current understanding of ethnic cleansing singularly fails to provide an efficient instrument for identification, and argues that the act, in having its own distinctive characteristics, conditions and exigencies, ought to be granted its own classification as a specific independent crime. Clotilde Pegorier is a Research Fellow in European, International and Public Law at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Publisher's note. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415529730 0415529735 9781299469358 1299469353 9781134067831 1134067836 9780203522776 020352277X 9781134067909 1134067909 |