Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington DC, and a member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law, blogs on topics related to international laws of war, international law, related human rights topics, international NGOs, and the theory of the just war. (Mostly inactive these days, everything here is first draft and subject to changing my mind.)
The great Christopher Caldwell, the finest of American journalists covering Western Europe fulltime, has a column in today's Financial Times on the criminal debacle of what he calls 'adventure philanthropy' and its attempted abduction of children from Chad. Required reading for the international NGO community, I think. Here (open link for now).
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Perhaps the Adventure Philanthropist should have checked the text of the Genocide treaty. Forced adopttions are mentitoned as means of committing Genocide.
Without commenting on what is happening in Sudan his actions are borderline. It depends on the motivation of the perpetrators; One could hardly blame Chad if they claim the stated goal was a subterfuge and the real purpose was to damage an ethnic or religious group “as such.”
What would France pay to prevent such a claim?
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