Restoring Minimally Just Conditions

Abstract

At the beginning of the previous chapter I suggested that an ITA can be a means to fulfill the requirements of the natural duty of justice if it fulfills the following three conditions:

• c1: the establishment of an ITA is a response to a situation of extreme state failure, in which a state is systematically unable to protect its citizens’ security rights

• c2: the goal of an ITA is to create minimally just conditions. To this end, it protects the local population’s security rights and ensures the (re-)construction of minimally just institutions. Once this goal is reached, ultimate authority must be transferred to the local government

• c3: the ITA governs in a way that respects the local population’s human rights and basic principles of rule of law, that makes the ITA accountable to the local population, and that avoids humiliation