A Theology of Engagement

A Theology of Engagement

Author: Ian S. Markham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1405143320

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This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the dividebetween liberal and orthodox approaches which characterisesChristianity today. Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide incontemporary Christianity. Defends Christianity’s engagement with non-Christiantraditions. Includes important discussion of theological method. Illustrated with case studies involving human rights,interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.


State Sovereignty and International Criminal Law

State Sovereignty and International Criminal Law

Author: Morten Bergsmo

Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

Published: 2012-11-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 829308135X

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'State sovereignty' is often referred to as an obstacle to criminal justice for core international crimes by members of the international criminal justice movement. The exercise of State sovereignty is seen as a shield against effective implementation of such crimes. But it is sovereign States that create and become parties to international criminal law treaties and jurisdictions. They are the principal enforcers of criminal responsibility for international crimes, as reaffirmed by the complementarity principle on which the International Criminal Court (ICC) is based. Criminal justice for atrocities depends entirely on the ability of States to act. This volume revisits the relationship between State sovereignty and international criminal law along three main lines of inquiry. First, it considers the immunity of State officials from the exercise of foreign or international criminal jurisdiction. Secondly, with the closing down of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals, attention shifts to the exercise of national jurisdiction over core international crimes, making the scope of universal jurisdiction more relevant to perceptions of State sovereignty. Thirdly, could the amendments to the ICC Statute on the crime of aggression exacerbate tensions between the interests of State sovereignty and accountability? The book contains contributions by prominent international lawyers including Professor Christian Tomuschat, Judge Erkki Kourula, Judge LIU Daqun, Ambassador WANG Houli, Dr. ZHOU Lulu, Professor Claus Kre, Professor MA Chengyuan, Professor JIA Bingbing, Professor ZHU Lijiang and Mr. GUO Yang.


The African Union (AU)

The African Union (AU)

Author: Konstantinos D. Magliveras

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9041195882

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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the structure, competence, and management of The African Union (AU) provides substantial and readily accessible information for lawyers, academics, and policymakers likely to have dealings with its activities and data. No other book gives such a clear, uncomplicated description of the organization’s role, its rules and how they are applied, its place in the framework of international law, or its relations with other organizations. The monograph proceeds logically from the organization’s genesis and historical development to the structure of its membership, its various organs and their mandates, its role in intergovernmental cooperation, and its interaction with decisions taken at the national level. Its competence, its financial management, and the nature and applicability of its data and publications are fully described. Systematic in presentation, this valuable time-saving resource offers the quickest, easiest way to acquire a sound understanding of the workings of The African Union (AU) for all interested parties. Students and teachers of international law will find it especially valuable as an essential component of the rapidly growing and changing global legal milieu.


Epistemologies of the South

Epistemologies of the South

Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317260341

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This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.


The Dawn of a Discipline

The Dawn of a Discipline

Author: Frédéric Mégret

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1108488188

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The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.


The Age of Rights

The Age of Rights

Author: Louis Henkin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780231064453

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This text explores the principal issues and developments, both in international human rights and in rights in the United States, and then compares the concepts and conditions of rights in various parts of the world. It pays particular attention to the role of US foreign policy.


Reducing Genocide to Law

Reducing Genocide to Law

Author: Payam Akhavan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0521824419

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Why is genocide the 'ultimate crime' and does this distinction make any difference in confronting evil?