Course 1A: The Charter, its genesis, essential principles and relevance today – Monique and Roland Weyl People's Academy of International Law

Course 1A

The UN Charter, its genesis, essential principles and relevance today

Course Description

This course has an anti-imperialist, people and earth-centered view of international law, designed to support practitioners and movements. Course materials and education will be in English, French, Spanish.

Course Content

History of the Charter, the role and respective positions of the allied powers, and the antifascist resistance, controversial issues of its drafting including the absence of a right of peoples to self-determination
Aims and principles – Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; UN definition of “rule of law”
Sovereign equality and non-intervention in domestic affairs
Prohibition of the Use of Force and exceptions, the possibility of restriction by Right to Peace
Multilateralism
Modes of conflict settlement between States