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The intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the world's communities is an inheritance that has been passed down through many generations. Its survival, however, is increasingly threatened by the realities of post-modern society, such as rapid urbanization,

The European Court of Human Rights has become a "victim of ongoing reforms." Continuous efforts to streamline and reinforce the system have proved inadequate in managing the challenge of its ever-increasing caseload. The consensus is that further reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights mechanisms are necessary in order to cope with the serious influx of cases from the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe. This book analyzes the...

Since the conception of an international criminal court, the US has played an intricate role in each international debate. The influential weight of the US determined the outcome of creating temporary international criminal tribunals, international support for national tribunals, as well as any progress to create a permanent international criminal court of its liking. The one international criminal tribunal that has deviated from this weighted...

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After the 9/11 attacks, a large number of countries have undertaken programs to bring together all relevant information in the fight against terrorism in order to be able to produce integrated threat assessments. Some of these initiatives have even included the establishment of new structures often referred to as 'fusion centers.' At the end of 2006, such a fusion center was also set up in Belgium - the Coordination Unit for Threat Assessment....

As the world struggles with accommodation of diversity in a wide variety of situations, including armed struggles with sometimes transnational security dimensions, it is clear that ethnic, religious, and linguistic identity constitutes a reality which needs to be taken into account. This book offers a theory about the nature and essence of minority participation and representation, while describing possible problematic aspects which need to be...

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Through history and modern power politics, Kosovo represents, in a nutshell, the problems created in the Balkans. Former Yugoslavia was exemplary for an artificial State where even the division into five republics and two autonomous provinces did not satisfy the divergent aspirations of the respective nations and ethnic groups. It disintegrated as soon as Communist ideology and Serb-dominated armed forces ceased to exist as a common bond. This...

Women's rights are human rights!" This notion may seem self evident, as the United Nations system for the promotion and the protection of human rights builds on the idea of equality in dignity and rights of men and women. Yet, as was convincingly shown by critics of this international system, it is not self evident. At the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, Austria, a caucus of women's rights activists made it unequivocally ...

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Over the last decade, the securities industry has been revolutionized. Technological and market innovations urged regulators to respond by updating the rules on securities trading. While in the US, traditional stock exchanges were under attack from electronic trading systems (ECNs), the European Union wanted to increase competition by abolishing the monopoly of traditional exchanges and by allowing systemic internalization by banks. The first ...

The Consultative Council of European Judges at the Council of Europe (CCJE) rightly characterized judicial autonomy, that is, the independence of impartiality of the third state power, as a "structured requirement of a state governed by the rule of law" (cf. position no. 8 from no. 10/2007 in the appendix). To do justice to the principle of the separation of powers as an accomplishment of the European Enlightenment, the autonomy of the third p...

This book analyzes how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) deal with general international law. In light of the concerns of various authors about the fragmentation of international law and the "human rightist" aspirations of human rights law, the question arises whether these human rights courts put the unity of general international law into danger. The main idea of this study is th...