Shared responsibility for human rights violations: a relational account

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • T. Gammeltoft-Hansen
  • J. Vedsted-Hansen
Book title Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation
Book subtitle Transnational law enforcement and migration control
ISBN
  • 9781138222236
  • 9781138222243
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781315408262
Series Routledge Studies in Human Rights
Pages (from-to) 27-52
Number of pages 26
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
Abstract In this chapter I will argue that a justification for sharing responsibility for ‘cooperative human rights violations’ lies in the relations between actors, and more particularly in the fact that because of these relations, actors may realize results that they could not have achieved alone. I therefore argue that in order to understand whether or not shared responsibility is justified, and what the consequences thereof would be, we have to supplement the traditional account of international responsibility as independent responsibility with a relational account of international responsibility.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315408262
Published at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315408262-9
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