Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY
- PART II OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
- The Deterrence Rationale in a Criminal Justice Accountability Regime
- Peace and Justice: Human Rights Fact-Finding in Raging Conflicts
- “Exceptional Measures” in Times of Crisis: Terrorism, National Security and the Rule of Law
- When the End Lacks the Means: National Prosecutions of International Crimes and Canada's Paper Tiger Approach
- The Independence of International Prosecutors: Where Law Meets Realpolitik
- Torture, Jurisdiction and Immunity: Theories and Practices in Search of One Another
- Revisiting Challenges to International Humanitarian Law
- PART III OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP
- An Interview with the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Arbour
Revisiting Challenges to International Humanitarian Law
from PART II - OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2019
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY
- PART II OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
- The Deterrence Rationale in a Criminal Justice Accountability Regime
- Peace and Justice: Human Rights Fact-Finding in Raging Conflicts
- “Exceptional Measures” in Times of Crisis: Terrorism, National Security and the Rule of Law
- When the End Lacks the Means: National Prosecutions of International Crimes and Canada's Paper Tiger Approach
- The Independence of International Prosecutors: Where Law Meets Realpolitik
- Torture, Jurisdiction and Immunity: Theories and Practices in Search of One Another
- Revisiting Challenges to International Humanitarian Law
- PART III OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP
- An Interview with the Honourable Madam Justice Louise Arbour
Summary
A GLOBAL CONTRIBUTOR
It is a special pleasure for me to write in honor of Louise Arbour because she is a person I hold in the highest esteem and whom I am privileged to consider a friend. I first met Louise in 1998 in Canberra. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Pacific Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Australian Red Cross had joined forces to organize a roundtable of South East Asian and South Pacific States to discuss the Rome Statute, then recently opened for signature. Louise was the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda at the time, and she had travelled for a full day of her life from The Hague to speak to the gathered representatives. She spoke passionately about the importance of a collective commitment to global justice and of the historical significance of the creation of the world's first permanent international criminal court. And people listened to her as they always do. Few people are imbued with such commanding presence as to “fill” any room they enter. Louise Arbour is exceptional. I was enthralled all those years ago and have been ever since. Louise commands the attention of others and her relatively diminutive height is testament to the irrelevance of physical stature for meritorious contribution in the world. For me, Louise is the quintessential “pocket rocket.”
My friendship with Louise was initiated following the Canberra roundtable when she and I joined a group of organizers for a post-roundtable social debrief. I have little if any recollection of the content of our discussions, but I do remember laughing long and loud as we thoroughly enjoyed the conviviality of the evening. It is one thing to share values and philosophical approach to one's profession; it is an additional blessing to experience deep satisfaction in eating, drinking and laughing together. In the 18 years since we first met, I have stayed in touch with Louise principally by catching up whenever we happen to have been in the same place – in The Hague, Ottawa, Geneva, Brussels, Melbourne and most recently in Vancouver.
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- Doing Peace the Rights WayEssays in International Law and Relations in Honour of Louise Arbour, pp. 317 - 352Publisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2019