PSCI 3307 Study Guide - Final Guide: Black Site, International Criminal Court, Humanitarian Intervention
8 Jun 2018
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Final Revision
Week 14
April 11, 2018
Exam preparation
The future of human rights
Week 8 HU and international law
• Main concepts
- Definition of international law→ norms and principles international law agrees on.
The problem with human rights is you can have many treaties and laws, but if it
doesn’t get implemented internationally is a problem
- Humanitarian law/ human rights law→ humanitarian law emerged prior to human
rights/ human rights law is much broader concept, it also applies in times of peace.
Human rights is much recent, it is based on the humanitarian “human rights council is
the main organs to observer human rights complaints.
- Reservation/ derogations→ reservation is in a treaty is what added at the end by the
state. When you uptown specific articles. Derogation is when the states askes later on
to exempt when the treaty of a short time.
- International criminal court: creation and implementation→ different disagreement
with the role of the prosecutes, the jurisdiction. The politics of human rights in the
discussion before the human rights court existed. (one of the essay questions).
- Limits of international legal framework for human rights.
week 9 -- human and global civil society
• Main concepts
- Concept of civil society (historical, contemporary roots)
- Global civil society actors: international NGOs
- Criticism and challenges of global civil society → there’s been many limits that have
been seen such as they are not democratic→ 1. There are not elected democratically,
they are not elected by the population. 2. Their participation of political power, lack
of protection on the ground, the lack of transparency, they do not how the money is
used, is the money actually being used to the betterment of the people.
- Different NGOs/ social movements→ Landless workers from Brazil. NGO→ is a one
cause top- bottom. social movements bottom up approach trying to reach more
representation. NGOs are long term, social movement is short term. Social
movement→ there is no designated leaders-- its hard to disband social movements
because it raises from everybody.
Week 10-- human rights, genocide and humanitarian intervention
• Main concept
- Concept and definition of genocide
- Drafting of the convention on genocide
- Theories of genocide:
➢ Classic theories
~ inter-group antipathy (Kueper, 1981).
~ state power and authoritarianism (Horowitz, 1976).
~ situations of crisis
➢ Recent theories
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Document Summary
Week 8 hu and international law: main concepts. Definition of international law norms and principles international law agrees on. The problem with human rights is you can have many treaties and laws, but if it doesn"t get implemented internationally is a problem. Humanitarian law/ human rights law humanitarian law emerged prior to human rights/ human rights law is much broader concept, it also applies in times of peace. Human rights is much recent, it is based on the humanitarian human rights council is the main organs to observer human rights complaints. Reservation/ derogations reservation is in a treaty is what added at the end by the state. Derogation is when the states askes later on to exempt when the treaty of a short time. International criminal court: creation and implementation different disagreement with the role of the prosecutes, the jurisdiction. The politics of human rights in the discussion before the human rights court existed. (one of the essay questions).
