| Abstrakt: |
Through the idea of asking what I describe as 'jester's questions' that are comfortable with paradox, this Afterword to the Special Issue reflects upon the value of critical, multi-disciplinary approaches for international law, the parallel binaries and pluralities in international law, and the relevance and capabilities of international humanitarian law regarding legal identity under insurgencies and unrecognised states. I suggest that the critique offered by the multi-/inter-disciplinary approaches in this Special Issue highlights international law's limits given the realities of the issuance of identity documentation by non-state entities. At the same time, precisely by illuminating those practical realities, this collection alerts us to the accompanying nuances existing in the law. Through this entry point, we are encouraged back, better-equipped, to international law and to better understand where and how it can already cope with greater complexity and compromise than might often be assumed. It allows us to place real demands on the law to prove itself as relevant and capable of protecting people, somehow holding together that paradox of universal principle and grounded application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
