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"The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outside of the decolonization context, however, its relevance and application has constantly been challenged and debated. This book examines the role played by self-determination in international law with regard to post-conflict state building. It discusses the question of whether self-determination protects local populations from the intervention of international state-builders in domestic affairs. With a focus on the right as it applies to the people of an independent state, it explores how self-determination concerns that arise in the post-conflict period play out in relation to the reconstruction process. The book analyses the situation in Somalia as a means of drawing out the impact and significance of the legal principle of self-determination in the process of rebuilding post-conflict institutions. In so doing, it seeks to highlight how the relevance of self-determination is often overlooked in this context."--

"October 1976." ; "This training course . is available to State and local governments for use in training auxiliary personnel for law enforcement agencies." ; Developed for the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency by the Technical Research Services Divisions, International Association of Chiefs of Police. ; Supersedes SM-10.1A and SM-10.1B, August 1965. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Joris van de Riet (Leiden University - Leiden Law School) has posted Self-Determination in International Law: A Kantian Perspective (Kant's Project of Enlightenment: XIVth International Kant Congress (Bonn, 8-13 September 2024)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The right to...

This work challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality. The text offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based, attainable requirements.

"The right of self-defense is seemingly at odds with the general presupposition that killing is wrong; numerous theories have been put forth over the years that attempt to explain how self-defense is consistent with such a presupposition. In Justified Killing: The Paradox of Self-Defense, Whitley Kaufman argues that none of the leading theories adequately explains why it is permissible even to kill an innocent attacker in self-defense, given the basic moral prohibition against killing the innocent. Kaufman suggests that such an explanation can be found in the traditional Doctrine of Double Effect, according to which self-defense is justified because the intention of the defender is to protect himself rather than harm the attacker. Given this morally legitimate intention, self-defense is permissible against both culpable and innocent aggressors, so long as the force used is both necessary and proportionate. Justified Killing will intrigue in particular those scholars interested in moral and legal philosophy."--BOOK JACKET

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Main Sources Cited in the Text -- Polemical Introduction: The Triumph of Self -- Part I: Ancient Ideals -- Chapter 1. The Hero -- Chapter 2. The Saint -- Chapter 3. The Thinker -- Part II: Ideals in the Modern World -- Chapter 4. Shakespeare and the Early Modern Self -- Chapter 5. The Poet -- Chapter 6. Freud and the Ideal Self -- Polemical Conclusion: In the Culture of the Counterfeit -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

This article examines public caning in Aceh using a psychological perspective. In 2018, the issue of the pros and cons of the implementation of public caning in Aceh did not have much attention. Suddenly, the new pros and cons emerged about the venue of caning which was initially held in public (courtyard) and then was held in a prison. The pros and cons emerged when the Government of Aceh did not plan to demonstrate public caning in order to protect the dignity of a convict. Using literature sources, this article sees that a psychological perspective can be taken into account in punishment policies in Aceh. The main argument in this article is that public punishment has a long-lasting psychological impact. This finding strengthens the opinion that there are differences in the objectives of the law applied by the Aceh government with the law implemented conventionally in Indonesia.

Part of a symposium on David Rodin's War and Self-Defense (New York: Oxford U Press, 2003) lauds the work as just the right starting point for discussions on the justice of war. Here, focus is on questions surrounding whether the state's demands on its own soldiers can be understood on the model of personal self-defense, drawing on Rodin's ideas. Conscription is considered on the basis of its perniciousness & its status as a key facet of the modern state. Conscription suggests that citizens of a defensive state can be obligated to kill &, more problematic, to die, which is termed here the "conscription paradox." Thus, the obligation to die & the obligation to kill are examined. If war is rooted in the individual right of self-defense, these obligations must derive from or be compatible with that right. It is asserted that one could dispense with these obligations by giving the state the right to make war but denying that this implies the right to demand soldiers kill & die, or war could be grounded in something other than self-defense that is more supportive of or compatible with these obligations. In conclusion, it is averred that states can legitimately defend themselves only if they are legitimate states; however, they can only defend themselves in a manner that compromises their legitimacy. Thus, all interstate war is illegitimate. J. Zendejas

Members of 68 families with allegedly violent wives were studied to explore the nature of women's violence at home and to ascertain whether wives assault their spouses in self-defense. Accounts of children and the wives' mothers were contrasted with husbands' and wives' accounts to ensure a high degree of accuracy of the assessment of the problem and to test the validity of the spouses' accounts. Qualitative analysis revealed that the credibility of the wives' accounts of violence was highly questionable and a justification of self-defense for female-to-male violence was unfounded in a majority of cases.

"In 1947, Japan eternally renounced war and the possession of armed forces with its constitution. How, then, did the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) survive, moreover, evolve over the ensuing 70 years into the prominent presence it is today? Sado Akihiro reviews the JSDF's history chiefly from the viewpoint of restrictions imposed on it by civil officials of the national beaucracy, based on lessons gleaned from the arbitrary conduct of the military in pre-World War II days. He also explores the financial constraints placed on the JSDF in the form of a percentage of the GNP. This book traces the inside story of U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's defense policy. It attempts to shine a light on the true state of the JSDF in the midst of new challenges that put it at a crossroads, including post-9/11 international terrorism, North Korean nuclear development, and China's increased military presence in Asia"--Back cover