Algerian Battle

  This assessment is a creative piece that can take the form of a journalistic / creative nonfiction article or essay, a fictional piece (including a short story) or other creative piece that critically engages with some foundational concept in public international law. The projects titles must be agreed with the lecturers by Session 17 (5th March), as they will be workshopped in two of the final three sessions of the course. The final coursework must be 3,500 – 4,000 words (with 10% grace on either end, not including citations) and must be submitted electronically via Moodle My teacher emailed me saying. On the title, just be careful with typos, you wouldn't say 'the Algeria' for example. On the substance of your question, it's difficult to answer without knowing exactly what your argument will be. However, when I was saying that you would want to do more than state facts I meant that you want to take a position on something. If, for example, you just tell me Algeria was a French colony, the FLN led an anti-colonial struggle, Algeria was recognised as independent by the UN on such and such a date, then you aren't really making an argument, you are just telling me something. So, you should try and make an argument about something - look back to the generic feedback we gave on moodle for the first piece of coursework, we want you to critique something, to complicate something, to look at something from a different angle etc. So, does the Algerian war and independence movement tell us anything about international law, self-determination, sovereignty (or anything else) etc.? What can we learn by looking at the facts of the Algerian war that maybe contract accepted definitions of things. How did the UN or any of its declarations, statements (or anything else) impact on the Algeria. Does the war prove or disprove the existence of international law or tell us about how it works in reality? Those are just thoughts and ideas that come to mind, so please do not feel constrained by them. Really, we would just stress that you should think about how the Algerian War relates to international law in some way, does the reality tell us more than what the textbooks tell us etc. I emailed him back saying : Okaay, that makes more sense, so my main argument will be "The French was not fair to the Algerian. Algerians just wanted their equal rights, today the French have given the rights to their overseas territory. Algeria could've been a French Colony but because they had their rights taken away they had to fight for their independence." Then i will go on to explain how international law did not help Algerians and explain how they did not, I will explain how the most powerful countries, like France for example have enough power to make the UN think nothing is happening in Algeria until the war started then the UN finally got involved. Ill also mention self- determination, sovereignty, and colonialism in my essay. & yes Im looking at the feedback right now and he emailed back That all sounds fine, just keep in mind the legal context of the time period that the War took place, what rights were afforded to colonial peoples at that time in international law? If you remember the classes we had on self-determination I was stressing that originally the UN (and its precursor) didn't really afford the right of self-determination to colonies (arguably that result of WWI & WWII was to allow the victorious countries to keep their colonies) but it may have inspired them to claim the rights that others had, and that this forced a change in international law from around the 1950s onwards as more colonies gained their independence. So, while the law may not have legally helped them, it may have inspired them and this, in turn may have eventually forced a change in the law (think of the right to vote - the law didn't allow women to vote, but women see that a man can vote and they are inspired to ask if he can vote then why can't she? Women then campaign and struggle and force a change in the law) - this also says something, perhaps about the relation between law and power which you allude to regarding France and the UN. I don't know if this was the case in Algeria, but it was just at thought that came to mind. I'm making it on the movie the battle of algeria as well as the actual battle , I am in Canada right now so you could call me on my Canadian number +16132923923