GEOG 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Special Tribunal For Lebanon, Peacebuilding, International Criminal Court

• School: McGill University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 420
• Professor: Benjamin Forest

Document Summary

Ci(cid:448)il (cid:449)ars are a(cid:271)out (cid:449)ho go(cid:448)er(cid:374)s esta(cid:271)lishi(cid:374)g post-conflict authority through transitional elections. Civil wars involve illegality and non-pea(cid:272)eful (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t resolutio(cid:374) establishing the rule of law and intuitions of non-violent conflict resolution. Ci(cid:448)il (cid:449)ars i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e (cid:449)idespread hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights a(cid:271)uses deali(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith past a(cid:271)uses. Role of international community: assuring suitable security climate, repatriation of displaced voters, supporting the development of democratic intuitions, developing electoral infrastructure, monitoring (and endorsing) elections. Local perceptions of international role: to interfere, or not to interfere, bosnia, what to do with imperfect elections, constitutional orders, presidential, parliamentary, and other systems, constitutionalized power-sharing, federalism/decentralization, consociationalism, asymmetrical arrangements/special status/etc, other mechanisms, representational guarantees, constitutional protections. Judicial overview: bicameral house, concurrent/supermajorities, external guarantees, electoral systems and electoral outcomes, majoritarianism vs. power-sharing, districting, palestine, bosnia, lebanon, iraq, the day (week, moth, year) after, abide by the results, angola, mozambique, cambodia, haiti. Corruption: sources, weak rule of law.