international justice
Cross-border legal fairness
International justice is the application of law and accountability across national boundaries, particularly for grave offenses like war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
It encompasses institutions like the International Criminal Court and tribunals convened after conflicts.
The term implies that some acts are so serious that perpetrators cannot escape judgment by crossing borders: The dictator was brought before international justice for atrocities committed against his own people.
- extraditionFugitive transfer between jurisdictions
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
- victim testimonySufferer's account of events
- truth commissionsOfficial bodies investigating past atrocities
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
due process · fair trial · human dignity · sovereignty · state actors · Hague Conventions · arbitration · reparations · equity · rule of law · Human Rights Watch · war crimes tribunal · treaty negotiation · judicial review · peacebuilding · conflict resolution · mediation · Paris Agreement
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, fundamental rights
- international lawtreaty, treaties, conventions, protocols, declarations
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A nation's internal rules
internal affairs · state courts · national sovereignty · tribal justice
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Freedom from consequences
crimes against humanity · victor's justice · genocide denial · ethnic cleansing · diplomatic immunity
international justicegunboat diplomacy
Persuasion through naval presence
imperial power · conquest · law of the jungle · power politics · unilateralism
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