Conflicts of Autonomy Interests and Right to Protest
Author: Arifur Rahman Image Source: Getty Images According to Joseph Raz, “the ruling idea behind the ideal of personal autonomy is that people should make their own lives. The autonomous person is a (part) author of his own life. The ideal of personal autonomy is the vision of people controlling, to some degree, their own destiny, fashioning it through successive decisions throughout their lives.”[1] Now, the idea of personal autonomy sounds captivating as one can choose what to do or how to act in contrast to coerced choices but the problem …
A review on “When is a conflict international? Time for new control tests in IHL” by Djemila Carron
Authored by: Anjana Dhital Background Djemila Carron’s article titled ‘When is a conflict international? Time for new control tests in IHL’[1] has been extracted from her doctoral thesis on the triggering act of an International Armed Conflict (IAC). This article proposes innovative control tests to be applied for determining the extent of control a state must have over an armed force to initiate an IAC or internationalize an already existing Non-International Armed Conflict (NIAC) thereby rejecting effective and overall control tests instrum…