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The Institute for International Law and Justice is pleased to invite you to a lunch talk with Michal Saliternik, a Hauser Global Research Fellow and IILJ affiliate. This workshop will focus on Saliternik’s article, “Reducing the Price of Peace: The Responsibility of Third Party Facilitators to Prevent Peace Injustices,” and will provide an opportunity for discussion and debate of related issues. This event is open to all who find interest in the topic of discussion. Lunch will be served.
Date: March 11th, 2014
Time: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Location: WILF Hall, 3rd floor conference room (139 Macdougal St.)
Commentator: Professor Christopher McCrudden
If you would like to attend, please kindly RSVP by email to iiljstudent@exchange.law.nyu.edu
A copy of the paper will be available with reservation two weeks before the event.
Abstract:
This article discusses the responsibilities of third party peace facilitators―that is, mediators, donors, and peacekeepers―with respect to the justice of peace negotiations and agreements. Adopting a humanity-oriented conception of state authority, it asserts that all world governments, or the “international community”, bear the responsibility for ensuring that peace agreements, wherever negotiated, are reached through a fair process, and that their terms are just and equitable. It then argues that peace facilitators should be singled out to discharge this collective responsibility in view of their potential contribution to peace injustices as well as their special ability to prevent them. After addressing possible criticisms of this idea of both principled and pragmatic order, the article explores ways to translate peace facilitator responsibilities into concrete legal obligations. The potential contribution of such regulation to promoting just and sustainable peace is demonstrated through a critical analysis of peace facilitators’ treatment of justice considerations in past peace processes in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan.