State Peace and Development Council

Good faith has been a consistent argument in the rulings of ICJ and other international tribunals. The ICJ on the matter concerning the admission of two new member states to the UN, expressly held that the principle of good faith limited the admissible exercise of discretion. Further in the North Sea Continental Shelf Case, the court (ICJ) based its judgment on the general precepts of justice and good faith. It recognized…

According to the WHO (1948)health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This definition is a widely acceptable one for the reason that it takes well-being into concrete consideration and more so because it doesn’t restrict health as a mere concept of only illness. The present article focuses on the health citizenship in the eighteenth century as the right of man within democratic states. Through the centuries health…

corporations faced in establishing themselves in relationship to the state. Providing corporations with the same rights as a natural person, posed a unique problem in that corporations were in seen as natural expressions of the desires of their members rather than purely as state entities or entities fully subject to state rule. To navigate this new territory a relationship based on autonomy that demanded respect and restraint by the state, with regards to operations was developed. Similarly,…

the late 1990s led increasingly to the militarization of the Delta. According to the report, by this time, local and state officials have become involved by offering financial support to those paramilitary groups they believed would attempt to enforce their own political agenda. Such groups include: Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Niger Delta Vigilante (NDV), Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP),…

Reformation were going to pass soon, thus he emphasized the power of the Pope to depose a civil ruler and the need for the ruler to chastise heretics who were not in accord with the official religion. The tense relations between the Church and the state continued, now encouraged by civil, academic, and scientific revolutions that occurred in the European world in the eighteenth…

place at some period prior to the 28th of October 1788 (Hamilton 1828: 548). After experiencing this disaster the Rajah retreated towards the frontiers of Tibet in order to re-assemble an army, and to solicit assistance from the Deb Rajah of Bhutan and the pontiff Lama of Lhasa (ibid). Gorkhas captured most of the Sikkim territories up to the Teesta river including all of the modern districts of South and West Sikkim as well as Darjeeling. It coincided with the Sino-Gorkha war (1788-1792)…

During the interwar period of 1919 to 1939, the European political arena witnessed a radical change in governmental organization. Historically this period has been defined by authoritarian Fascism and Nazism. In fact, Gino Germani a professor at the University of Buenos Aires hypothesizes that the structural tension inherent in all modern society between growing secularization and the necessity of maintaining a nationalist centred government was sufficient for the integration of causal factor in…

considered their equal. If this same crime, was committed against someone considered of a lower class, the lawbreaker would only be punished with a fine. Other examples of social and gender inequalities can be found in many of the laws. One such law states that if a “maid-servant” is pregnant and a man killed them, he would be punished with just a fine. However, if he committed the same crime against a free born woman, his own daughter would be taken and killed in retribution (Sayre 20).…

civilian communities, it was England and the United States too. Using the cover of the dark clouds, British air forces dropped thousands of bombs on an industrial city in Germany. Destroying over half of the city, leaving thousands of people homeless, starving, or dead. In the early morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese’s air forces attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, submerging most of the US Naval force to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The United States before hand was in no way participating…

in Darfur is complex, unclear, and yet unmistakably horrifying to study. The most recent conflict starting in 2003 display roots in colonization and conflicts dating back to the 1800s and range from ethnic tensions to differences in religion. The state of genocide in Darfur is ambiguous in that the United Nations and some countries disagree on whether the violence constitutes genocide or not, and whether there is “intent to destroy”. Perhaps most troubling of all is the Sudanese government’s…