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The legal competence of the international community to create 'safe havens' in 'zones of turmoil'
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.25446/oxford.33362355.v1
The plight of forced migrants has been high on the international agenda in the 1990s due to the various conflicts that have erupted in many parts of the world in the post-Cold War period.
Description
In an effort to address the problems of forced migrants, the international community has resorted to a number of measures, including the creation of 'safe zones' or 'safe havens' or 'no-fly zones'. There is a host of problems relating to the creation of such zones; one of them is the legal competence of the international community to create such zones.
Whatever the practicability of such measures or the intention of the major powers of the day on any given conflict, the purpose of this paper is to look at the bases in international law for the creation of such 'zones of peace' for forced migrants in the 'zones of turmoil' without the consent of the state(s) concerned. The conclusion derived from the discussion of the existing regime of international law, is that the international community has the legal competence, under narrowly defined conditions, to create such safety zones for the protection of forced migrants.
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The paper concludes by stating that in spite of its competence and the rhetoric to this effect in relation to the problems in Kurdistan and Bosnia Herzegovina, the international community failed to honour its words due to the lack of political will.
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- DOI doi.org/10.25446/oxford.33362355.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
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- Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Humanities · Humanities · Humanities · International and comparative law · International and comparative law · International and comparative law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Migration, asylum and refugee law · Social Science · Social Science · Social Science
Provenance · 3 source records, 19 field assertions
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|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/33362355 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/33362355 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/33362355 | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:480704 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Migration, asylum and refugee law'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4803 | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['INTERNATIONAL LAW'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4803 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['INTERNATIONAL LAW'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4803 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['INTERNATIONAL LAW'] |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
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| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
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| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |