Jeremy Julian Sarkin

The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally (eBook, ePUB)

Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, through the lens of the conflict in Syria, why international law and the United Nations have failed to halt conflict and massive human rights violations around the world. It will be valuable in the areas of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Political Science and Peace and Security Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000471861
• Artikelnr.: 62751492

Autorenporträt

Professor Jeremy Julian Sarkin teaches human rights, transitional justice and a research methodology course to doctoral students at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal. He is a Research Fellow in the Department of Criminology at the University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has a master's in law degree from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in comparative and international law. He served as an acting judge in South Africa. He was a member (2008-2014) and served as Chairperson-Rapporteur (2009-2012) of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. He is admitted to practice as attorney in the United States and South Africa. He has published 18 books and more than 300 journal articles. He serves on a number of non-governmental organisations and journal editorial boards.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Problems with International Law and International Processes
2 Syria as One of Many Rogue or Pariah States that Continually Violate the
Rights of Their People
3 Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions in Syria During the
Conflict
4 What Has Been Done to Halt the Conflict in Syria
5 What Has Been Done and by Whom to Deal with the Violations,
Disappearances, Detentions and the Missing in Syria?
6 Making the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) a Real and Actually Applied
International Law Norm in Situations of Conflict and Mass Human Rights
Violations as well as in Syria
7 Why Providing Victim Protection is Dependent on Reforming International
Law and the United Nations
8 The Need for an International Victim-Orientated Process to Deal with
Conflict-Related Detentions and Disappearances in Syria
9 Which Institution Should Create a New Mechanism to Search for the
Disappeared and Detained in Syria?
10 The Design of a Mechanism Needed to Conduct a Search For People and Find
Information for Their Families
Conclusion