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4 - War Crimes Tribunals and the International Court of Justice: Nature between Property Protection and Humanitarian Concerns

from Part II - The Practice of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2021

Eliana Cusato
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Chapter 4 delves into the practice of the international judiciary and, specifically, international war crimes tribunals and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). By analysing the approaches of post–World War II tribunals, the committee established to review the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in the Former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the International Criminal Court, the first part of the chapter reflects on the conceptual, normative, and practical limitations of international criminal law. The second part provides a critical reading of two important ICJ cases, the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion and the Armed Activities case (Congo v. Uganda), dealing respectively with the ecological devastation of nuclear weapons and pillage of natural resources in the Congo. The chapter ultimately contends that international justice, both in its criminal and inter-state dimensions, is concerned about individual/state agency, quantifiable harm, and its proximate causes. Thinking in these narrow terms about the ecological impacts of militarism and resource extraction associated with conflict fails to grasp the structural dimensions of the problem, the plurality of actors involved, and the obligations owed to other human and non-human beings.

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The Ecology of War and Peace
Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law
, pp. 105 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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