I don’t think the bottleneck on reparations is a court saying they should happen. The bottlenecks are 1) high income countries agreeing that this court should exist and 2) high income countries following what this court tells them to do. Both seem vanishingly unlikely to me.
That’s fine of course, just additional thoughts. If you think you can achieve #1 without the others, by all means, is it then not a better option to do than spending over a decade investing in simple bandaids and hoping someone else solves this issue? Or that the big $ coming in from China/Japan/Russia/etc actually improves the QOL for everyone… and not just the logistics system that brings them more natural resources? I sincerely doubt we’ll see another Rwanda in even 5 other countries in Africa in the next 5 years, but maybe 10.
I don’t think the bottleneck on reparations is a court saying they should happen. The bottlenecks are 1) high income countries agreeing that this court should exist and 2) high income countries following what this court tells them to do. Both seem vanishingly unlikely to me.
That’s fine of course, just additional thoughts. If you think you can achieve #1 without the others, by all means, is it then not a better option to do than spending over a decade investing in simple bandaids and hoping someone else solves this issue? Or that the big $ coming in from China/Japan/Russia/etc actually improves the QOL for everyone… and not just the logistics system that brings them more natural resources? I sincerely doubt we’ll see another Rwanda in even 5 other countries in Africa in the next 5 years, but maybe 10.