Avia Pasternak, "Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Is the United Nations Compensation Scheme Justified?
In one of the chapters, i look very closely at the united nations compensation scheme that was in enforced, forced on nira. I show that according to my model, it's very unlikely that the vast majority of eracke citizens were intentional participants on the state. So i don't think the scheme as it was constructed was justified. And then i offer a range of solutions, or of alternatives, that the designers of the scheme might have used a instead to generate the compensation for the victims. A the last bit on the bookit looks at historical responsibility. There's lots of other complex, really interesting, complex issues i came across as i worked on this chapter,. What do we do
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