POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Transitional Justice, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Power Transition Theory
16 Apr 2014
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Densification of international law and an increase of the contractual relationship between states. Today, no political life is never not part of a treaty, a contract. Most dense institutional setting is eu- some rules have authority over the sovereign right of a nation. Specificity of eu- members have decided to negotiate sovereignty. But the sources of international law were focussed on avoiding unnecessary conflict. Question of justice- transition- issues of justice associated with post-conflict societies. Issues linked to legal responses- past dicator or regime- notion is very recent. Acknowledge that for a lasting peace you need to tackle notion of justice. Among nations, the idea of justice was present after the war when the victor imposed some condition to the loser. Versailles- ended up with a bizarre notion of justice; define who was killing- germany is guilty. Which is to say that it was a very subjective notion of the facts; but this was the narrative of the time.
