Nina H. B. Jørgensen

Print publication date: 2000

Print ISBN-13: 9780198298618

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298618.001.0001

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ContentsFRONT MATTER

Title Pages
Dedication
Editor’s Preface
Preface
Foreword
Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of International Treaties and Other Documents
List of International Law Commission Documents
Part I Historical Introduction to the Concept of State Criminality
- 1 International Criminal Responsibility in the Two World Wars
- 2 Efforts to Codify and Develop the Law Relating to International Criminal Responsibility
Part II Juridical Status of the Concept of State Criminality
- 3 The Concept of Criminal Organizations
- 4 The Criminal Responsibility of Corporations
- Conclusion to Part II
PART III Candidate Criteria and Indicia for Identifying State Crimes
- Introduction to Part III
- 5 Jus Cogens
- 6 Obligations Erga Omnes
- 7 International Community Recognition
- 8 The Seriousness Test
- 9 The Conscience of Mankind
- 10 Elementary Considerations of Humanity
- 11 Peace and Security
- 12 Individual Criminal Responsibility under International Law
- Conclusion to Part III
Part IV Practical Feasibility of the Concept of State Criminality
- Introduction to Part IV
- 13 The Problems and Modalities of Punishing a State
- 14 Punitive Damages in International Law
- 15 The Institutional Framework and Procedures for Imposing Criminal Responsibility on States
- Conclusion to Part IV
PART V Status of the Concept of State Criminality in Contemporary International Law
- 16 State Practice since the Second World War
- 17 State Criminality and the Significance of the 1948 Genocide Convention
- Conclusion
END MATTER
Appendix I Text of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Appendix 2 Draft Articles on State Responsibility: Articles 15 to 19 on the Substantive and Instrumental Consequences of International Crimes Formulated by Mr Arangio-Ruiz, Special Rapporteur, in 1995
Appendix 3 State Responsibility: Titles and texts of the draft articles on Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts adopted by the Drafting Committee on second reading
Bibliography
Index

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Peace and Security

Chapter:: (p. 131 ) 11 Peace and Security
Source:: The Responsibility of States for International Crimes
Author(s):: Nina H. B. Jørgensen
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298618.003.0013

This chapter discusses the concept of crimes against the peace and security of mankind. It deals with the element of ‘internationality’, which is construed in terms of the collective security interests of the international community. It highlights the work of the International Law Commission in creating the Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind dealing with international crimes committed by individuals and the increased role of the UN in maintaining or restoring international peace and security.

Keywords: crimes, peace, security, internationality, international community, International Law Commission, United Nations, international crimes

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