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...? Running Head: SIMMEL’S STRANGER & ICC FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION (ICC) Simmel’s ‘The Stranger’ This paper is focused on the different dimensions and evolution of intercultural communication with respect to George Simmel’s’ extraordinary writing, “The Stranger”. The concepts used in this marvelous piece of writing have been the chief source of deriving the complex synthesis and implementation of intercultural communication. The major focus will be on effective communication. Introduction “Intercultural communication” is a diverse topic of in-depth research which gained its significance during 1960s and has been a major subject matter of different fields of study like Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics... the...
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.... IMT had two members from each of the four participating nations, namely, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. These members would shape various paradigms of criminal law and process.3 The IMT mission was instigated in 1945, as soon as the Committee of Chief Counsels of the four parties to the London Agreement—a declaration that specify the guidelines and law through which the Nuremberg trials were to be carried out-- approved and passed an indictment laying down the criminal acts arraigned against the ‘main’ war criminals.4 The indictment convicted them with four violations: ‘(1) common plan or conspiracy, (2) crimes against peace, (3)...
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...Judgment at Nuremberg is a powerful persuasive film by producer-director, Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy playing the main protagonist of chief American judge, Dan Haywood. When four Nazi German Judges are put on trial for abetting holocaust during the Second World War, Haywood was at the helm to deliver the verdict. Although, the actions of the German judges were a clear case of violation of human rights, Haywood played by Spencer Tracy faces slight ethical and moral dilemmas due to the background of one of the judges and also due to the changed political climate. Among the judges, Ernst Janning (portrayed by Burt Lancaster), was slightly different from others because he was an...
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...The Nuremberg Trials Sentencing Crimes against humanity and crimes against peace were among the charges that many ofthe accused were facing in the International Military Tribunal. The International Military Tribunal, which was famously known as the Nuremberg Trial, focused on individuals that had committed different crimes against Jews in Germany, which saw the death of a large number of them. An estimated six million Jews died during the holocaust, and the international community had to react to the problem that arose from that situation. Many of the people being charged declared their innocence before the court, while...
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...WAR ON DRUG CRIMES A drug can be described as any substance that when administered affects the functioning of living organisms or the cell in them. In medicine, these drugs are used to diagnose, cure or prevent occurrence of diseases. Unfortunately modernization and civilization has lead to the discovery of certain drugs, which serve different purposes either than the former. This type of drugs is commonly referred to as hard drugs. These hard drugs are also substances that when administered affects the functioning of living organisms but the difference is that it does so negatively.
The discovery and usage of these hard drugs has brought about a lot calamities in our societies. They are mostly the cause of many social problems we... of ...
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...Introduction The Nuremberg Trial is trial of four Nazi judges before American court which comprised of three judges. The Nazi judges were accused of being partner in crimes and murders by the Nazi forces, and were further accused of their failure to make fair and honourable judgments. The four Nazi judges were accused of corrupt practices, and were tried for their failure to abide by and apply the fundamentals of law.
The movie is based upon major shortcoming as per which the German judges could not be trailed on American land by the American judges under the Constitution of America. The accusations against judges were based upon atrocities and murders of Germans inside...
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...up during Nuremburg trials, Russian treatment of German prisoners all came under war crimes. Crimes against humanity include genocide, mass murder, en mass slavery, mass executions, enslavement, deportation, extermination etc. This means any atrocious act committed on a large group could be termed as crimes against humanity. Sometimes these two overlap one another. Paul Touvier, Klaus Barbie, and Maurice Papon in France, and Imre Finta in Canada are a few examples.
The origins of the war crimes must have started as soon as the war started and that was immediately after the Stone Age when people began...
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... Turkish state. The Nuremberg Charter and the negotiations on it led to the making of a provision named as "crimes against humanity". Besides the war crimes, Article 6 (c) of the Nuremberg Charter enumerates crimes against humanity as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against anu civilian population, before or during the war or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds". The novelty of the conception of crimes against humanity lies in the fact that it includes the aggression caused by a state on its own citizens. There exists a dilemma in the existing conception of crimes against humanity as to whether to link these crimes with international armed conflict... against humanity is...
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...International Tribunals and the ICC To ensure that justice prevails in various situations, there was the formation of various tribunals such as the military tribunal and other kinds of tribunals. The ICC was also formed to ensure that there is justice for war crime victims in various countries in the world. These justice systems have had a number of successes in their practices, however, they also have some weaknesses that can be improved on through amends and this will form the basis of discussion in this paper.
One strength of the ICC and other tribunals in bringing war crime suspects to justice has been the fact that...
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...humanity of which Zdravko Tolimir was charged and convicted showed no compunction and guilt despite the thousands of people he oversaw and administered to be murdered (Associated Press, 2012).
Thus, he was convicted in the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague (ICTY) under the Geneva Convention Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that defined war crimes as:
"Wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including... wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power, or wilfully depriving a protected...
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