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What is the justice cascade?

Three periods of human rights abusive politician. Cases of these politicians. Cascade from being in power, loosing their unity, becoming accused of human rights abuse and go to trial. Cascade is a journey from being powerful, human rights abuse, loosing immunity and going to trail, and how these cases affected democracies etc. Case of Chile, Pincohet, facing trial new regime was established. It is the route.

What is the doctrine of complementarity?

The complementarity principle on which the International Criminal Court (ICC) is based entails that the ICC can only investigate and prosecute core international crimes when national jurisdictions are unable or unwilling to do so genuinely. It was created as an admissibility principle of the ICC
it will complement states actions, also it needs to rely in states, sometimes it does not have enough resources, example - police (it relies on Interpol)

What is humanitarian intervention?

coercive action by one or more states involving the use of armed force in another state without the consent of its authorities, and with the purpose of preventing widespread suffering or death among the inhabitants
Countries gather their forces and use the forces to stop the violence in the country, regarding the authority of the state.
Example: Soemalia case. Civil war on their territory and countries came there, to stop the violence.

What is transnational advocacy network?

A trans- national advocacy network includes those actors working internationally on an issue, who are bound together by shared values, a common discourse, and dense exchanges of information and services”

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