POLS 2401 Study Guide - Schuman Declaration, European Investment Bank, Social Market Economy
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Tharoor: are human rights universal: the philosophical objection asserts essentially that nothing can be universal; that all rights and values are defined and limited by cultural perceptions. A un security council peacekeeping mandate with civilian protection provisions can only be implemented in the context of a political agreement. The implementation of a mandate depends on the will to interpret it politically and to enforce it with the means provided. The congo confrontation: failure to demobilize troops or to integrate them into the army as part of the political transition permitted the confrontation that caused hundreds of civilian deaths. For months the international community treated the faceoff between the military forces as a technical problem of army integration and disarmament. Neither monuc nor the diplomatic corps managed to engage the conflicting parties in political discussions to resolve the issue. Partly as a result, another military clash occurred in. March 2007, killing hundreds more people, mostly civilians.
