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A STATE PLANNING TO WAGE WAR BECAUSE A NEW TECHNOLOGY WAS HELD TO BE ALMOST CERTAIN TO GUARANTEE VICTORY, WOULD VERY LIKLEY BE DISAPPOINTED. IN THE LATE 1970S AND THE 1980S, NEW STRATEGIC, TACTICAL NUCLEAR AND CONVENTIONAL WEAPON TECHNOLOGIES PROMISE FAR GREATER LETHALITY-PER-ROUND, OR EFFECTIVENESS, THAN EVER BEFORE, BUT THE WILLINGNESS TO RESORT TO FORCE SHOULD NOT BE ENHANCED THEREBY.

Abstract
While the relationship between the jus in bello and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable debate, less attention has been paid to the relationship between the jus ad bellum and human rights. The United Nations Human Rights Committee's General Comment 36 on the right to life, adopted on 30 October 2018, brought these questions to the fore with the Committee's pronouncement that 'States parties engaged in acts of aggression as defined in international law, resulting in deprivation of life, violate ipso facto article 6 of the Covenant'. The contributions in this Symposium assess three ways of viewing the relationship between the protection of human rights and resort to force. First, the suggestion that resort to force in violation of the jus ad bellum will amount to a violation of the right to life is explored. Second, some contributions examine different arguments as to whether international law permits, justifies or excuses resort to force to protect human rights, and indeed whether it can change to permit such. Third, one contribution examines whether the crime of aggression, as defined in the ICC Statute, covers resort to force to protect human rights.

Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948, by Anita Shapira is reviewed.

THE MURDER OF DR. DAVID GUNN, A DOCTOR WHO PERFORMED ABORTIONS, IN 1993 MADE A DECISIVE BREAK WITH THE PRO-LIFE RESCUE MOVEMENT'S 20-YEAR HISTORY OF NON-VIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST ABORTION IN AMERICA. THE ACT OPENED THE FLOODGATES TO OTHER VIOLENT ATTACKS ON DOCTORS, AND BROUGHT TO PUBLIC NOTICE A VIOLENT SPLINTER SECT OF THE LARGER MILLENARIAN SUBCULTURE DEDICATED TO THE RESCUE OF THE UNBORN. THIS ESSAY SEEKS TO DETAIL THE STAGES THROUGH WHICH THE RADICAL FRINGE OF THE RESCUE MOVEMENT PASSED BEFORE THEY CAME TO EMBRACE THE NECESSITY OF DEFENSIVE ACTION. THIS STUDY CONTRIBUTES TO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH A MILLENARIAN MOVEMENT TURNS FROM NON-VIOLENT WITNESS TO VIOLENT ACTIVISM.