The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds

1. The Causes and Prevention of Violent Conflict
2. Policing after Conflict: Peace-Building and the Responsibility to Protect
3. The Ethnic Conflict in Solomon Islands
4. Collective Identity and the Construction of Political Markets in Africa
5. Rethinking Nationality in International Humanitarian Law
6. The Role of International Courts and Tribunals in Relation to 105 Armed Conflict
7. Human Rights Commissions and Religious Conflict in the Asia-Pacific Region
8. The Role of the United Nations in Conflict Resolution and Peace-building in Timor-Leste
9. Lessons Learned Investigating the Well-being of Children Affected by Armed Conflict
10. Civil War in Côte d’Ivoire: Another Perspective on the Economy and the Political Order in Africa
11. Some Methodological Issues with Reconstructing Justice in Post-Conflict Situations (Training Judges in Afghanistan, Congo and Timor Leste)
12. A Right to Family Life? Tracing Fractured Family Identities Drawing upon Law, Human Rights and Biology
13. Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Crimes:International Law and Peacebuilding
14. Take Heart – International Law Comes, Ever Comes
15. International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and the Responsibility of States for Choice of Forum and Effective Enforcement
16. Challenges for the International Criminal Court: Terrorism, Immunity Agreements and National Trials
17. The Sexual Violence Jurisprudence of The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: The Silence Has Been Broken but There’s Still a Lot to Shout About
18. Political Constraints upon the International Criminal Court
19. Redressing the Wrongs of The International Criminal Justice System
20. The War on Terror: Self-defence or Aggression?
21. When the Law Breaker Becomes the Law Maker
22. What Price Justice? Prosecuting Crimes Post-Conflict
23. Strengthening Enforcement of International Criminal Law
24. Redressing Partial Justice – A Possible Role for Civil Society
25. Could Systematic Sexual Violence against Women during War Time Have Been Prevented? – Lessons from the Japanese Case of “Comfort Women”
26. The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
27. Peacekeepers in Post-Conflict Situations – Upholding the Rule of Law
28. The Role of Non-State Actors in International Conflict: Legal Identity, Delinquency and Political Representation
29. What Crisis at the United Nations?
30. The Role, Rights and Responsibilities of UNHCR in Situations of Acute Crisis
31. International Law and the Concept of Human Security

This collection is an integrated body of essays that provides a comprehensive range of viewpoints on how international legal and political mechanisms can address the catastrophic consequences of deadly conflict in today's world. The authors are drawn from a diverse range of disciplines encompassing law, peace studies, international relations and criminal justice and include judges, members of the military, academics, United Nations personnel and representatives of non-government organisations