Is there any role for regional organisations in the maintenance of international peace and security and if so, how effective are they? This question has polarised the debate on the role and potential contribution of regional intergovernmental collective security organisations in the maintenance of international peace and security in the post-Cold War period. Some scholars argue that regional or...

This Article first examines the role of economic and developmental assistance in the context of peacemaking and then focuses on one specific innovative economic assistance measure: the Qualifying Industrial Zone (“QIZ”) initiative. Part I of this Article describes how addressing the economic requirements of the negotiating parties has interplayed with their other requirements within the overall...

Article history: Received 6 August 2013 Received in revised form 20 January 2014 Accepted 19 March 2014 Available online 22 April 2014

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The “City of God” as the most prominent work of St. Augustine can be considered a good link between the Christian and Greek philosophical tradition.  He argues that the purpose of human Justice, surrendering to order, can be considered relatively a type of human justice.  St. Augustine, like many of the philosophers before him, stress that the ultimate goal of Peace for the human being is the u...

A s we don our armor for the second Great War of Internet Governance, we need to know the cost of the combat and the real weapons that we bring to the fight. The field of battle began filling the moment the US Department of Commerce announced, on 14 March, that it would no longer be the political guarantor of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). This war merely continues the first Great War o...