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Questionwhat is the purpose of public international law if there are no effective enforcement mechanisms to apply it? Maria KyriacouAnsweroriginal language english
Hans-Peter Dürr: We don’t need power to get attention. There will be no such power and if there were such a power it would be more dangerous than salutary for the process. We need procedures to clarify what is right and what is wrong and this does not mean that someone is deciding it for us. These are exactly the kinds of discussions we need if we want to solve conflicts. That we are not allowing for somebody to formulate the problem but that we pass the ability or sovereignty to define the problem on to all of us and that we pick out of these plurality of asking questions, out of these problems what they have in common, on what they can agree. A kind of process of setting up rules by finding out about these problems. These procedures have to be transparent and they have to make the sincerity of the process really clear. The dignity of such a process, which is acknowledged by everyone, will have so much publicity that people will say: This higher court, this court of nations, which is valid for all, they have come to this judgement and this is enforced in public. Because we are saying: We followed the process and we agree with it because it is in accordance with what we experience to be right in our own life anyway.
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