The UN on International Crimes:
Embedded Orientalism and Western Liberalism
Miranda Baumann
International Justice at Its Core
UN Discourse
Legitimizing Practices, stereotypes & Self-Other constructions
ICC Application
Redefinition of History
Democratic Peace Theory
Anti-African & Middle Eastern biases
Orientalism & Western Liberalism
How does the United Nations’ discourse on the prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression since the 1940s embed Orientalism and Western liberalism?
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Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse:
The Evolution of the Genocide Convention
UN's Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes
Genocide Note #1: When to Refer to a Situation as "Genocide"
Plan of Action of Religious Leaders and Actors
Critical Analysis:
Prioritization of Western liberalism --> Legitimizing practices
- Democratic peace theory, development dichotomies
- Self-Other constructions, stereotypes, indoctrination
Orientalist tropes
- Self-Other constructions, portrayal of Asia, especially the Middle East, as a savage, deviant Other
- assumed interpretations, implicit assumptions
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