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U4 AOS1 - Ethical Issues and Debates - Coggle Diagram
U4 AOS1 - Ethical Issues and Debates
Debate 1 - Human Rights
Economic Challenges to the Universality of Human Rights
Cultural Challenges to the Universality of Human Rights
State Sovereignty versus 'Responsibility to Protect'
Debate 2 - Arms Control
International Security versus State Security
Non-proliferation versus Disarmament
Differing Approaches regarding Non-state Proliferation
Key Terms
Realism
- states prioritizing their specific interests and needs over that of the global community.
Cosmopolitanism
- a desire among global actors to cooperate to reach common goals to meet global challenges that are presented to the global community.
Justice
- The concept of moral rightness based on ethics, law, fairness, and equity that compensates for/punishes ethical breaches.
Ethics
- a notion that seeks to address questions of morality and extends to global politics, as global actors are guided by different frameworks.
International Law
- a body of rules established by custom or written legal arrangements that are accepted as binding upon the international community.
Relevant International Laws
Arms Control
The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Article 1
- each nuclear-weapon State Party undertakes not to transfer to any recipient nuclear weapons.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Article 1
- Each State Party never undertakes to develop or produce chemical weapons.
UNSC Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540)
Obliges states to 'refrain from supporting non-state actors from developing, acquiring, possessing, transporting or transferring nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons'.
Human Rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Article 36
- State parties shall protect the child against all forms of exploitation.
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Article 15
- state parties shall accord to women equality with men before the law.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Article 6
- Every human being has the inherent right to life.