春が来た 🌸🤍
We don’t necessarily need to go back to a pre-state form of organization. Maybe developing a stronger and egalitarian system based on regional governance and supranational structures could provide a good alternative for the current state-centered system, and could be more viable in dealing with the rapidly changing political and social contexts of ou time. The Westphalian framework on which the current system is based is outdated, distorted and falls short from addressing the challenges and imperatives of our time (climate change, human rights, technological development etc). In my opinion the concentrated Nation-state model is neither viable nor compatible with the values, ethos and aspirations of humans at this stage of history.
“The draft United Nations cybercrime treaty does not incorporate human-centric principles and the prospect of it being adopted in its current form is gravely concerning. “
The situation could have been less apocalyptic if the UNSC was able to function effectively when an imminent threat to Intl peace and security is established, however with the right to Veto we all know that’s not possible as long as the interest of one of the veto holder is at stake. Referring the issue to the ICJ is already so complicated, kudos to SA that they manage to overcome the institutional hurdle, but even if the ICJ’s jurisdiction is established, and the formal requirements are fulfilled, there is no way to enforce the ICJ’s “supposedly binding” order without an order from the UNSC or the state’s consent-both of which are not possible in the case of Gaza. Besides this internal contradictions/indeterminacy of the law, what blows the mind is that some rogue states are more likely to act in full impunity than others in a system that is supposedly based on “sovereign equality”. “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
I wouldn’t say they are scared, I would rather say that the system itself is designed to (dys)function in such way.
The status quo is grim. The very idea that the rights of individuals (including the very basic right to life) are outweighed by political considerations and attempts to say the law in way that doesn’t cause inconvenience to the perpetrator and its allies, poisons the heart.
The current way in which international law is arranged is deeply disturbing not only because of the ineffectiveness of its institutional arrangements when great powers interests are at stake, but also in the way it discriminated between individuals when their rights are at stake (e.g, Ukraine- Gaza). We need a better system that doesn’t treat (certain) humans as numbers/ mass/ statistics, or maybe we just deserve this system.
“Speaking the Law, Plausibly: The International Court of Justice on Gaza”
https://www.ejiltalk.org/speaking-the-law-plausibly-the-international-court-of-justice-on-gaza/
No ceasefire though 🤐
“Speaking the Law, Plausibly: The International Court of Justice on Gaza”
https://www.ejiltalk.org/speaking-the-law-plausibly-the-international-court-of-justice-on-gaza/
“This process of socializing our experiences is a healthy one as long as it is balanced by a sphere of privacy. Without it there is no power left in the self to resist continual change and the individual develops into a bundle of uncoordinated patterns of adjustment.”
Karl Mannheim : Privacy and Inwardness in the Modern World
https://www.anthologialitt.com/post/karl-mannheim-privacy-and-inwardness-in-the-modern-world
Automating Injustice: AI and Automated Decision-Making in Criminal Justice.
https://www.fairtrials.org/app/uploads/2021/11/Automating_Injustice.pdf
https://www.fairtrials.org/articles/publications/automating-injustice/
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review
Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. Wittgenstein
#Weltschmerz
#فلسطين_في_القلب🤍
“Are we ready to have the most intimate part of our “being human” constantly exposed, potentially manipulated by proprietary algorithms with potential serious impacts on fundamental rights, democratic systems, and pluralistic societies?”
How Do You Feel Today?” Exploring IHRL and IHL Perspectives on Law Enforcement and Military Uses of Emotion Recognition Technology
“to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” 👣🕊
Victor Frankl
もうすぐ冬です 🧣🍂
Jack 🫂: “is there anything that we can do as individuals collectively to help you home?”
Edward Snowden🤍🤍🤍: ”much more urgent is the case of Julian Assange💔; this guy has been in a bad bad prison for a long long time. He is in a terrorist-level custody for publishing the truth.🥹
#Nostrasia #Day2
🕊A better world is possible 🕊
