State Accountability to Sovereignty of the Human Person

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	An-Na‘Im, Abdullahi Ahmed
Copyright Year	2020
Description	This project seeks to develop ways of holding governments accountable for their failure to satisfy the requirements of conflict management, political stability, economic growth, and social welfare. Since offending governments tend to resist external sources of protection and assistance for an oppressed population by pleading national sovereignty, and major international actors are less likely to act unless driven by strategic or ideological reasons, the project aims at “expounding on the normative principles of responsible sovereignty, international mechanisms and strategies for their enforcement, and empirical evidence about the performance of governments as measured by the stipulates of sovereignty.” Asserting “human dignity as an overarching goal to which all peoples and societies aspire and are committed, whatever the variations of their cultural perspectives on the institutional details of the concept” the project perceives this concept as “operationally or functionally translated into a quest for recognition and respect for human beings, both as individuals and as members of identifiable groups. Human dignity demands, in the minimum, equal treatment with full rights and duties of citizenship.”
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Ending Page	71
Page Count	21
Starting Page	51
ISSN	07311265
e-ISSN	23314117
DOI	10.1017/jli.2020.19
Journal	International Journal of Legal Information
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	48
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2020-12-02
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	International Journal of Legal Information National Sovereignty
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Library and Information Sciences