| Acknowledgements | 6 |
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| Table of Contents | 7 |
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| I. Introduction | 10 |
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| Introduction | 11 |
| Address | 13 |
| Address | 15 |
| II. State Responsibility and Peace | 18 |
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| The Normative Environment for Peace On theContribution of the ILCs Articles on StateResponsibility | 19 |
| I. Introduction | 19 |
| II. State Responsibility as a Means to PromoteInternational Peace | 21 |
| 1. An Intuitive Assumption | 21 |
| 2. Three Objections | 23 |
| III. The Conceptual Objection: The ILC Articles asSecondary Rules | 25 |
| 1. World Order Issues in the Drafting History of the ILC Articles | 25 |
| 2. Peace Through the Maturing of the International Legal Order? | 27 |
| 3. The Issue of Self-Judgment and the Culture of Formalism | 29 |
| IV. The Objection of Diminishing Relevance | 34 |
| 1. The Emergence of New Mechanisms | 34 |
| 2. New Functions of the Law of State Responsibility | 38 |
| 3. The Case of International Organizations | 40 |
| V. The Realist Objection: State Responsibility and HardCases | 43 |
| 1. A Mixed Balance | 43 |
| 2. The Discussion on Responsibility for Harbouring TerroristGroups | 47 |
| VI. Concluding Remarks | 49 |
| Comment: State Responsibility and Peace | 53 |
| I. Introduction | 53 |
| II. State Responsibility and Post Conflict Peace Building | 53 |
| III. Issues of Self-defense | 54 |
| IV. Responsibility of International Organizations | 55 |
| V. Responsibility for Violation of Obligations Erga Omnes | 56 |
| VI. Conclusion | 57 |
| Comment: The Impact of Security CouncilResolutions on State Responsibility | 58 |
| I. Introduction | 58 |
| II. The Impact of Binding Decisions | 59 |
| III. The Effects of Non-Binding Resolutions | 61 |
| IV. Resolutions Concerning Serious Breaches ofObligations under Peremptory Norms | 63 |
| V. The Requirement of Validity of Security CouncilResolutions | 64 |
| Comment: State Responsibility and Peace | 66 |
| III. The Law of Treaties and Peace | 70 |
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| The Merits of Reasonable Flexibility: TheContribution of the Law of Treaties to Peace | 71 |
| I. Introduction | 71 |
| II. Creating the Regime: A Short History of the ViennaConvention on the Law of Treaties | 73 |
| III. Peace through Law: Does the Law of Treaties MakeTreaties a Stabilising Factor? | 76 |
| IV. The Principles of a Stable Treaty Regime | 81 |
| 1. Pacta Sunt Servanda | 81 |
| 2. Reasonable Flexibility | 82 |
| 3. Limits to Flexibility | 86 |
| V. The Limits of World Order: Peremptory Norms andTermination / Suspension of Treaties | 88 |
| 1. Termination and Suspension | 88 |
| 2. The Peremptory Nature of Ius Cogens: Invalidity and Terminationby Application of Articles 53 and 64 | 96 |
| 3. Unequal Treaties | 102 |
| VI. Conclusion | 106 |
| Comment: The Contribution of the Law ofTreaties to Peace | 109 |
| I. Main Thesis | 109 |
| II. Identification of Assumptions | 110 |
| III. Alternative Approach | 111 |
| Comment: The Vienna Convention on the Lawof Treaties and its Contribution to Peace | 114 |
| I. Introduction | 114 |
| II. Codification vs. Customary International Law | 114 |
| III. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties:Stability or Flexibility | 117 |
| 1. The Vienna Convention as an Instrument of Stabilization | 117 |
| 2. Grounds for Adjustment not Foreseen in the Vienna Convention | 117 |
| 3. Conclusion | 118 |
| IV. The Need for Change: A Proposal | 119 |
| Comment: The Contribution of the Law ofTreaties to Peace | 121 |
| IV. International Law of Shared NaturalResources and Peace | 124 |
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| The Benefits of Positivism: The ILCsContribution to the Peaceful Sharing ofTransboundary Groundwater | 125 |
| I. Introduction | 125 |
| II. Conflicts Concerning Natural Resources | 126 |
| 1. Environmental Law and International Security | 126 |
| 2. The Geographical Sharing of Resources | 129 |
| 3. International Law Applicable to Groundwater | 132 |
| III. Peace Through the Law of Transboundary Aquifers | 134 |
| 1. Why Legal Regulation? | 135 |
| 2. Why the Legal Regulation the ILC Has Adopted? | 141 |
| IV. Excluded Topics | 146 |
| 1. Water Resources Exclusively Under the Jurisdiction of One State | 146 |
| 2. Dispute Settlement | 148 |
| V. A Framework for Peace: Conclusions | 149 |
| Comment: International Law of Shared NaturalResources and Peace | 151 |
| Comment: Trends in the Law Applicable toFreshwaters | 156 |
| I. Introduction | 156 |
| II. The ILCs Work on International Freshwater Law andits Relation to More Specific Instruments | 157 |
| 1. The Negotium and Instrumentum Notions in the ILCs Work | 158 |
| 2. The Concept of lex specialis | 161 |
| III. Prevention and dispute settlement | 162 |
| 1. Judicial procedures | 163 |
| 2. Joint Bodies and Commissions | 165 |
| IV. Conclusion | 170 |
| Comment: The ILCs Contribution to thePeaceful Sharing of TransboundaryGroundwater | 172 |
| V. Concluding Discussion | 175 |
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| The ILC and Informalization | 176 |
| The Role of the ILCs Work in Promoting Peaceand Security Definition and Evaluation | 180 |
| Peace through Law: The Role of the ILC | 185 |
| List of Contributors | 189 |
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| Authors of the main presentations | 189 |
| Commentators | 190 |