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Israel's construction of a separation wall through the West Bank and East Jerusalem represents the latest stage in Zionism's attempts to resolve its 'native problem'. By confining Palestinians to a series of disconnected cantons, it deprives them of political and territorial contiguity. But the wall also embodies a demographic rationale: it is the threat of a majority Arab population under Israel's charge that determines the wall's route and its exclusion of areas where Palestinians are concentrated. The logic is one of a unilateral imposition of Israel's borders, bound up with the deferral of final status negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Thus marginalised, the Authority is reduced to a 'Palestinian state with provisional borders' - not a sovereign state, but a municipal provider of services. Following the finding of the International Court of Justice on the wall's illegality, the challenge for the Palestinians is how to develop an effective strategy of resistance to the wall and the occupation of which it is part.

Left-wing guerrillas operate in Buenaventura's rural ar-eas and have historically been a major cause of displace-ment in the area. Currently, however, the violence and displacement in Buenaventura is concentrated in its ur-ban center, where guerrillas have virtually no presence, and 90 percent of the municipality's population lives. ; Summary -- Recommendations -- Methodology -- Background -- Disappearances, dismemberment, and terror. Disappearances ; Dismemberment ; Restrictions on movement and social control ; Forced displacement ; Forced recruitment ; The "law of silence" -- Inadequate protection and accountability. Lack of protection ; Lack of accountability ; Lack of timely assistance for the displaced ; Colombia's international obligations.

In this article, Frederic Chemaly discusses the current global balance of power. After explaining the political term of “Sick Man”, Chemaly predicts that the currently-polarized world is bound to produce a new sick man.   The Ukraine war, a prominent element in a sequence of events, invites a review of the shifting political and economic … Continued

This paper aims to rethink the idea of constitutional renewal through a dissection of Richard Albert's ground-breaking concept of constitutional dismemberment. It is contended that under the rubric of constitutional dismemberment are two exceptional constitutional phenomena: the ought-to-be declared nullity of unconstitutional constitutional amendments and the legal unity-defying, extraconstitutional expression of what Hannah Arendt called "natality" in political action. The thesis is that attempts to tame revolutionary constitutional alteration with designed rules as to formal constitutional change as Albert's illustrates are missing the meaning of constitution-making for a natality-driven constitutional renewal characteristically defies designed constitutional form. The concept of constitutional dismemberment is first dissected in light of Arendt's idea of natality. With constitutional dismemberment unpacked, it is further observed that the constitution-making transmutes into the formal pronouncement of a new codified constitution in Albert's rigid tripartite classification of constitutional changes into amendment, dismemberment, and enactment. Albert therefore inadvertently reduces constitution-making to the formal enactment of a new codified constitution with constitutional natality dismembered and constitutional renewal hollowed out. It is concluded that Albert's formalistic conceptual framework of constitutional change reflects the centrality of comparative written constitutions in the place of comparative constitutional phenomena in current comparative constitutional studies.