Human Security Through Formal Trials: Some Evidence from Southeast Asia

• Main Author: Peou, Sorpong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: East Asia and Asia Pacific; Country and Region Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84841; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42003
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When the United Nations declared the 1990s to be “Decade of International Law”, optimism spread about the future of world peace. Another chapter of international law also began to open. Formal trials were what it would take to help promote human security. But evidence from Southeast Asia remains inc...