Aggression as "organised hypocricy?" - How the war on terrorism and hybrid threats challenge the Nuremberg legacy
Date
2012
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University of Windsor
Abstract
Modern threats to international peace and security from so called “Hybrid Threats”, multimodal threats such as cyber war, low intensity asymmetric conflict scenarios, global terrorism etc. which involve a diverse and broad community of affected stakeholders involving both regional and international organisations/structures, also pose further questions for the existing legacy of Nuremberg. The (perhaps unsettling) question arises of whether our present concept of “war and peace”, with its legal pillars of the United Nations Charter’s Articles 2(4), 51, and the notion of the criminality of waging aggressive war based on the “legacy” of Nuremberg has now become outdated to respond to new threats arising in the 21st century. This article also serves to warn that one should not use the definition of aggression, adopted at the ICC Review Conference in Kampala in 2010, to repeat the most fundamental flaw of Nuremberg: ex post facto criminalisation of the (unlawful) use of force. A proper understanding of the “legacy of Nuremberg” and a cautious reading of the text of the ICC definition of aggression provide some markers for purposes of the debate on the impact of new threats to peace and security and the use of force in international law and politics.
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CITATION: Bachmann, S.-D. & Kemp, G. 2012. Aggression as "organised hypocricy?" - How the war on terrorism and hybrid threats challenge the Nuremberg legacy. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 30(1):233-252, doi:10.22329/wyaj.v30i1.4365.
The original publication is available at https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ
The original publication is available at https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ
Keywords
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946, International crimes, Criminal law, Aggression (International law)
Citation
Bachmann, S.-D. & Kemp, G. 2012. Aggression as "organised hypocricy?" - How the war on terrorism and hybrid threats challenge the Nuremberg legacy. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 30(1):233-252, doi:10.22329/wyaj.v30i1.4365.