Articles by Prof. Bishnu Pathak
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The Tokyo Tribunal: Precedent for Victor’s Justice II
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
This paper aims to find out the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment, and analyse the preference for justice: victor’s justice or victim’s justice. During World War II, anti-communist Emperor Hirohito actively led Japan decorated by the Army’s uniform but pretended to be a ceremonial Emperor making scapegoats to his opponents.
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Nuremberg Tribunal: A Precedent for Victor’s Justice
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
21 Sep 2020 – The specific objectives of the paper are to identify the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment to the Nazi war criminals on accountability for justice and to analyse the preference for justice: victors’ justice or victims’ justice. Experiences on Transitional Justice, Human Security, and Human Rights, among others, touched, inspired and motivated the author for this pioneering paper.
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Can Former Child Soldiers File a Complaint at the International Court against Nepal’s Maoist Leaders?
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
24 Aug 2020 – This state-of-the-art paper is prepared to review the voices of the former child soldiers (under the age of 18) recruited by the Maoist Army during the People’s War (1996-2006) in Nepal. The former child soldiers were used as informers, porters, messengers, cooks, and dancers among others. The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) verified a few thousands of child soldiers within the Maoist Army. The former child soldiers suffered from all concerned institutions.
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Critiques on the Tribunals and The Hague Court
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
27 Jul 2020 – This critique is a review of heinous crimes. It assesses to connect with perpetrators, victims, people and institutions and change professed through the works of the Tribunals and The Hague Court and share the feeling with the concerned ones. The objectives of the paper are three-fold: (1) to study the situations of the investigation, prosecution and punishment on accountability; (2) to analyze the preference for justice: victors’ justice or victims’ justice; and (3) to access the critiques on violations of human rights and humanitarian law beyond the borders.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – The book Gandhica focuses on Mahatma Gandhi’s ideal for the science of nonviolence. The book particularly advocates for spherons, partons and Tetranet Thinking as a principal new scientific interpretation and the fundamental social rationale.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
26 Feb 2020 – This state-of-the-art paper is prepared based on archival literature review, exchanging and sharing, Rome Statute defined functions and a practical observation approach rather than theoretical conception. The Hague Court gathers and scrutinizes testimonies, questioning victims and witnesses and analyzes the shreds of evidence of a suspect’s innocent or guilty.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
23 Sep 2019 – Child soldiers are children under the age of 18 who are recruited by armed organizations, state-and-non-state forces. They are trained for informants, spies, porters, messengers, sentries, cooks, and often used for sexual purposes and as human shields. Children are easily trapped appealing for hope of better future and are trouble-free targets for military recruitment owing to their grater defenselessness to influence compared to the grown-ups. Girls are at high risk of rape, other forms of degrading treatment, and those who have had pregnancies or babies are often rejected by their own families or communities.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
4 Aug 2018 – Abstract: The concept of this study was to explicitly define the characteristics of Process Documentation (PD), a unique type of record keeping system. The PD is a process of lessons learned-centric piloting approach which is a neologism in Social Science research. The PD moves forward “anti-clock-wise” direction and generally applies to humanitarian agencies in support, care and emergency relief programs to deliver basic services to needy people.
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World’s Transitional Justice Ironically Ensures Freedom to the Perpetrators Further Limiting Justice to the Victims
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
30 Jul 2018 – The objective of this writing is to dig out the abstract meanings from a Nepali language paper on Transitional Justice Practices in the World: Truth, Justice and Prosecution Being Shadowed. Transition is a gap period between the two-Government systems: old (past) and new (present and future). This is the situation when neither the old system (government) is completely collapsed nor a new one is fully established.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
The objective of this paper is to explore the initiatives and practices of different countries in truth seeking. Many countries during the post-conflict, colonial, slavery, anarchical and cultural genocide periods establish the Truth Commissions to respond to the past human wrongdoings: crimes and crimes against humanity. Enforced disappearances, killings, rapes and inhumane tortures are wrongdoings.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media service,
29 Aug 2016
Galtung has developed the TRANSCEND Method (conflict theory and practice, violence theory and practice, peace transformation, dialogue, and negotiation) to transform the conflict by peaceful means constituting a three-step approach, generally called TRANSCEND or Galtungian method.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2016
Disappearance entails violation and abuse of many fundamental human rights: the right to liberty, to personal security, to humane treatment, freedom from torture and other cruel treatment, the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel, to equal treatment before and under law, to receive correct information, and the right of innocence unless proven guilty by the national and international human rights instruments.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Enforced disappearance is a prototypical continuous act. The act occurs when a person secretly arrests, detains, tortures and disappears by conflicting forces, but refuses to acknowledge whereabouts of his or her fate . The dead body decomposes in such a way as not to ever be found.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
A devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, 2015 disrupted the lives of nine million people – almost a third of the population. A second one of magnitude 7.3 on May 12 further complicated getting aid to survivors mainly in the central Nepal. Thus, the challenge of quake is being turned to opportunity to make a new Nepal forming a national Government headed by a clean, dynamic and honest leadership.
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bishnu Pathak’s introduction to Alberto Portugheis’ book, ‘$$$$$s in Their Hearts,’ which will be launched soon. “Portugheis puts emphasis on the fact that weapons do not exist “for Peace”. They will never bring about Peace. Some of his aims are: to ensure basic support for the needy, (to stop them being “needy”) restrict weapon manufacturing to cover Police needs, abolish the Arms Trade and the disbanding of all armed forces.”
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Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Human security is complementary to human rights. It is a comprehensive, interrelated, and coordinated concept that encompasses freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom to live in dignity, and freedom to inherit pro-nature environment for forthcoming generations as fundamental rights.
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