International Intervention And Criminal Penalties In The Settlement Of Ethnic Conflicts In The Role

Ethnic conflict is a complex sociological issue, and different branches of learningattempt to offer resolutions from different aspects. In the context of international law todate, there are two ways to settle the ethnic conflict, namely interference and punishment.Interferences are the measures taken by the international society towards the conflictingparty in respect of politics, economy, diplomacy and law to cope with ethnic conflicts andprevent humanitarian disasters from happening. Various measures are taken based onfeatures of different development stages, and there are basically three stages: firstly,preventive measures taken before the conflict as an interference to settle the conflicts;secondly, measures taken during the conflict as an interference to restrain deterioration ofthe situation; thirdly, measures taken after the conflict to promote reconciliation of ethnicgroups and resume social order. Punishment, on the other hand, is the measure taken by theinternational society after the happening of a large-scale humanitarian disaster for thecriminal prosecution purpose, which at the same time has manifested human’s pursuancefor justice. Both interference and punishment have their own strength and weakness, whichis the focus of this thesis; as to the weakness, the author has made several suggestions forimprovement in the hope that this thesis will be of constructive sense for future ethnicconflicts.