From stopping to preventing atrocities

The Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU) provides for the right of the continental body to intervene in the face of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. According to its formulation, Article 4(h) intervention entails military force, which is triggered when a target state fails to discharge its duty to protect its population from mass atrocities. Although Article 4(h) is an ambitious statutory commitment to intervene in a member state by the AU, the Libyan crisis in 2011 showed the ambivalence of the continental institution to act in a decisive and timely manner. The AU's failure to invoke Article 4(h) exposed the need for building the capacity and political will to intervene and to interpret Article 4(h). Therefore, the primary focus of this article is on how Article 4(h) should be interpreted. Flowing from the Pretoria Principles, which seek to provide clarity on the implementation of the AU's right of intervention, Article 4(h) should be viewed as a duty rather than a right to prevent or stop mass atrocities. The duty dimension of Article 4(h) derives from the international instruments that AU member states have ratified to prevent mass atrocities. Rather than being a paper tiger, Article 4(h) should be used in a proactive and timely manner as a military option available to the AU to persuade member states to prevent or halt atrocities. As a last resort, military force pursuant to Article 4(h) should aim at protecting the population at risk and pursuing the perpetrators in order to avoid contravening Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations (UN). Although military intervention can save lives in the short term, it cannot necessarily address the underlying, structural causes of atrocities, such as ethnic rivalries, economic inequalities and scramble for natural resources, among others. Therefore, the prevention of mass atrocities should not be equated with, or be seen through the prism of, Article 4(h) intervention alone. The focus should instead be on the entire spectrum of preventive strategies at the disposal of the AU in the face of mass atrocities, including the African human rights system and the African Peer Review Mechanism.     

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An asymptotically optimal inspection policy

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切伦科夫辐射的强流电子束均匀性光学诊断

透明介质中带电粒子的运动速度大于介质中的光速时就会产生切伦科夫辐射光。搭建了基于切伦科夫辐射光的强流电子束均匀性诊断系统,实现了时间和空间分辨的纳秒级电子束均匀性光学诊断。利用程序对诊断系统进行设计。在此基础上对两种天鹅绒阴极发射均匀性进行光学诊断测量。结果表明:在相同电参数下,碳纤维天鹅绒较化纤天鹅绒具有更好的发射性能,与之对应的切伦科夫辐射光斑面积更大,其亮度扫描曲线不但中心增强区域较化纤天鹅绒宽,在其边缘附近也有较强的亮度分布;通过分析切伦科夫辐射光斑的分布和强弱的时间分辨图像,可以得到阴极在电脉冲过程中的运行状态,具有10ns~100ns级时间分辨特性。     

外大气层动能拦截器仿真平台设计和实现

针对外大气层固体或液体动能拦截器,使用VC++6.0开发了仿真平台。仿真模型的参数可以通过文件形式保存和读取。仿真平台能够动态演示飞行弹道和飞行参数;能够对拦截结果进行脱靶量评估、初始条件评估、轨道修正能力评估和能量消耗评估;能够进行3种综合测试;能够对关键设计参数进行寻优计算;能够封装为动能拦截器仿真模块与运载器仿真模块整合。介绍了平台的设计、实现、关键技术和应用情况。     

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