With an estimated ninety-five percent of the world's armed conflicts occurring within individual states, resolution and prevention of internal conflicts represent a main driver of global peace. Peace negotiations stand outside the traditional formalism of lawmaking and represent a uniquely privileged moment to observe the rise or adjustment of the legal framework of a given state. Based in a socio-legal and pluralistic understanding of law, this book explores the normative dynamics of peac...

Written by international practitioners and scholars, this pioneering work offers important insights into peace mediation practice today and the role of third parties in the resolution of armed conflicts.The authors reveal how peace mediation has developed into a complex arena and how multifaceted assistance has become an indispensable part of it. Offering unique reflections on the new frameworks set out by the UN, they look at the challenges and opportunities of third-party involve...

International Criminal Law in Context provides a critical and contextual introduction to the fundamentals of international criminal law. It goes beyond a doctrinal analysis focused on the practice of international tribunals to draw on a variety of perspectives, capturing the complex processes of internationalisation that criminal law has experienced over the past few decades.The book considers international criminal law in context and seeks to account for the political and...

Nichts ist älter als der Erfolg von gestern. Im internationalen Wettbewerb nimmt der Druck für Start-ups und etablierte Unternehmen zu: innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen müssen in immer kürzeren Zyklen entwickelt und geliefert werden. Personalmangel, hohe Unternehmenssteuern und lange Antragswege sind nur einige der Innovationshemmnisse, die den Abstand deutscher Unternehmen zur Weltspitze vergrößern.Aktuelle weltpolitische Ereignisse offenbaren eine starke Abhängigkeit Deut...