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- Title: Concluding Remarks (The U.N., the Israeli Attacks in Gaza and the Goldstone Report) (Editorial)
- Author : Global Governance
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
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IN CONJUCTION with the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), the editors of Global Governance have created a moderated online discussion forum, where we invite the four contributors to this agora, and the broader scholarly community, to comment on the articles, to take account of the anticipated Israeli government's responses to the evidence of violations of humanitarian and human rights law marshaled in the Goldstone Report, and to respond to letters to the editors. This online conversation should enrich the contribution of the agora to public appreciation of the Goldstone Report and the issues it raises. Whatever the follow-on discussion, and whatever my possible disagreement with one or another point in these four articles, I believe the articles set an example of reasoned discourse about a controversial effort to interpret the law applicable to asymmetric armed conflicts, and to apply that law dispassionately under strenuously difficult conditions. I see no need to attempt a summary of the essays. They are not long, they are clearly written, and they speak sufficiently for themselves. But like any texts, much less those concerning matters that engage powerful emotions, they are still subject to interpretation that will vary with each interpreter's viewpoint. In other words, neither I nor anyone else can achieve a definitive summary of the essays or the judgments they embody.