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12 mai 2008, par Ifrah Laurence
Depuis quelques mois, les systèmes d’information des pays occidentaux sont victimes d’attaques virulentes provenant de la RPC (République populaire de Chine). Organisées ou non par l’Armée populaire de libération de la Chine (APL) il n’y a aucun doute sur le fait qu’elles proviennent de pirates informatiques (hackers) de haut niveau qui ont bénéficié de moyens techniques et financiers importants complétés par des informations précises sur les infrastructures de leurs cibles.
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31 mars 2008, par Olsson Christian
Doctorant en sciences politiques (relations internationales) à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Paris affilié au Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Chercheur associé au Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, Paris
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28 février 2008, par McPherson Lionel K
Peut-on considérer que le terrorisme est moralement différent de la guerre traditionnelle ? Il s’agit d’une violence politique très comparable et la mise en avant de l’argument des morts de civils est bien peu convaincant : on estime que dans les guerres récentes ce sont à peu près 80% de civils qui ont été tués.
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4 February 2008, by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Several human rights organizations have claimed that the Norwegian military intentionally extradite Afghan prisoners of war to regimes that evidently practice torture.
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23 April 2007, by European Parliament
The European Parliament’s (EP) Progress Report on Croatia requests the next possible EU accession country to cooperate better with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The report, drafted by Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has been adopted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 27.3.2007 and will be discussed by the plenary next Wednesday, 25.4.2007.
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28 February 2007, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
The Court of Justice rejects the appeals brought by the applicants claiming compensation following their inclusion on the list of persons, groups or entities involved in acts of terrorism, stating that the appellants are not deprived of all effective judicial protection and the orders of the Court of First Instance do not prejudice their right to such protection.
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27 February 2007, by Conseil de l’Europe
Although the United States of America (US), an observer to the Council of Europe, remains strongly committed to international law, the American administration has, especially since 11 September 2001 and in pursuit of its so-called «war on terror», inappropriately and unilaterally disregarded key human rights and humanitarian legal norms considered by it to be overly constraining or otherwise inappropriate in view of the perceived new situation. In so doing, it has done a disservice to the cause of justice and rule of law and has tarnished its reputation as a beacon in defending human rights and in upholding well-established rules of international law.
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14 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
This first volume of Desafío ( s ) looks to begin an investigation field to analyze the (perverse) relationships established between power and the citizens’ rights. This volume presents different contributions that were submitted at the Seminar on Criminal Policies of War organized on March 2005 by the Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans (OSPDH) of the University of Barcelona (UB).
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15 November 2006, by Burgess Peter
Considerable attention was attracted to the conference in the Norwegian research and diplomatic communities. In addition to the members from the COST Action, Challenge and PRIO, 86 external people registered which included diplomats, journalists, academics and students.
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18 September 2006, by EOS Gallup Europe
The underlying objectives of this Flash Eurobarometer survey, carried out in October 2003 for the European commission in the 15 Member States of the European Union, are to sound out European citizen’s opinions on the justification of military intervention and war in Iraq. It is to be placed in the context prevailing in October 2003: the intensification of political violence, the growing conflict...It measures perceptions on reconstruction and issues of security in Iraq.
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11 September 2006, by Ferrero-Waldner Benita
The conflict in Lebanon, the violence in the Palestinian Territories, the suffering of civilians in northern Israel: these past months the prospect of a comprehensive peace has seemed further off than ever.
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2 August 2006, by Euractiv
EU foreign ministers will engage in an internal war of words in the quest for a united voice for the battling parties in Lebanon.
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2 août 2006, par Euractiv
Des pourparlers difficiles s’engagent entre les ministres européens des affaires étrangères afin de tenter de s’exprimer d’une seule voix sur la question libanaise.
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2 August 2006, by European Presidency
La Présidence de l’Union européenne est choquée et consternée par les frappes aériennes israeliennes sur la ville de Cana, au Liban-Sud. Rien ne saurait justifier les attaques faisant des victimes parmi les civils innocents, pour la plupart des femmes et des enfants.
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2 August 2006, by European Presidency
The Presidency of the European Union is shocked and dismayed by the Israeli air strikes on the southern Lebanese town of Qana. There is no justification for attacks causing casualties among innocent civilians, most of whom were women and children.
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12 July 2006, by Cutler Schershow Scott ,
Michaelson Scott
The article explores the status of the Guantanamo detainees and argues that the category of ‘unlawful combatant’ has always been foundational to the laws of war, being applied to ‘spies’ or other irregular participants in an armed conflict. Thus, the predicament of the Guantanamo detainees is ‘the very manifestation of the existing state system and its corollary values’. Critics of Guantanmo cannot rely on international law or in the exercise of sovereignty. The authors’ suggestion is that sovereignty itself must be torqued in a strange reversal, and made to work against itself. Sovereignty must be ‘expended without reserve in the name, not of law, but of justice, to the point where the territory and its boundary tremble’.
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13 June 2006, by Taylor Claire
Since the Nice European Council in December 2000 significant progress has been made in furthering the defence capabilities of the EU. Institutional planning structures have been established and a number of measures introduced to promote the development of military and civilian crisis management assets, including the creation of the European Defence Agency. More recently the European Commission has also introduced measures to facilitate harmonisation of the defence market in Europe.
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23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.
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17 May 2006, by Challenge
Organised in the scope of the Challenge Framework Programme, this conference will be the occasion, for the 23 European partners of the program, to present the state of their research. It will put together, within 8 different but complementary workshops, participants coming from different spheres (scholars, NGOs members, high level members of national as well as European institutions, security practitioners...). The conference aims at highlighting, from a transdisciplinary perspective, the contemporary transformation of the modern state so as to as the question of the illiberal practices of liberal regimes.
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15 May 2006, by Ahmadi-Najad Mahmood
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena — which are being constantly debated, specially in political forums and amongst university students. Many questions remain unanswered. These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the hopes that it might bring about an opportunity to redress them.