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22 U.C. Davis J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 139 (2015-2016)
Genocide, Counterinsurgency, and the Self-Defense of UN Member States before the International Criminal Court

handle is hein.journals/ucdl22 and id is 151 raw text is: GENOCIDE, COUNTERINSURGENCY, AND THE SELF-DEFENSE OF UN MEMBER STATES BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Hannibal Travis* I. INTRODUCTION ............................................... 140 II. THE MIXED RESULTS OF THE JUST-WAR DEFENSE IN WAR- CRIMES TRIBUNALS ......................................142 A. Just Wars, Aggression, and Murder Before 1914....................142 B. Versailles, Leipzig, Constantinople, Trabzon, Yozgat, and the Renunciation of War .............. ................145 C. Nuremberg ...........................................146 D. The Ad Hoc War-Crimes Tribunals .............. .....149 E. The ICC ............................... ........151 III. THE DRAFTING HISTORY OF THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION AND THE ROME STATUTE ON THE LEGALITY OF JUST WAR....................153 A. Is Drafting History Important? ................ .......155 B. Travaux Pr6paratoires of the UNGC ............. ......155 C. Travaux Prdparatoires of the UN Charter.. ................161 IV. A TYPOLOGY OF DEFENSES PRESENTING JUST-WAR ISSUES AT THE ICC................................................165 A. Genocide-Related Defenses, and Defenses to Extermination as a Crime Against Humanity .............. ...................166 B. Murder and Its Exclusions During Wartime ...... .......171 C. Defining Wanton Destruction of Cities as a Result of Warfare ............................... ......... 175 D. Military Violence Designed to Punish a Group as Torture, Deportation or Persecution ................. ......... 177 V. SCENARIOS INVOLVING A DEFENSE OF JUST WAR AT THE ICC.......178 Table 1: A Typology of Scenarios Involving Just-War Issues as ICC Defenses.........................179 A. State Survival in Iraq and Syria.................. .. ..............180 B. Interrupting Potentially Genocidal Conspiracies in Nigeria and the Central African Republic Post-2008 ..... ........190 C. Suppressing Potentially Genocidal Foreign-Backed Rebels in South Sudan ..................................... 194 D. Common Threads Among These Cases..... ............196 Table 2: High-End Death Toll Estimates in Prominent * Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law.