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Contact: Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
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In the context of international security and role of the United Nations Security Council:

"Perhaps the weakest area of the rule of law now concerns the issue of enforcement. It is a truism that international law lacks the police functions that are found in domestic legal systems -- it is instead a  system that still relies largely upon self-help when it comes to enforcement. The ability of the UN Security Council to perform its enforcement responsibilities under the Charter is limited by its need to operate in consensus and by its practical inability to order enforcement actions, especially involving the use of military force, against one of its permanent members." -- Dhanapala, International Law, Security, and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, 2002 Spring Meeting of the Section of International Law and Practice American Bar Association.
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