Criteria of Ecoterrorism in Protecting the Common Heritage of Humanity with Emphasis on International Documents

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1 Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The issue of the environment, as a common heritage of humanity, has international dimensions in the current world and it deserves to be considered as one of the crucial international issues and predicted the mechanisms to deal with environmental terrorists in international agreements and or established the International Court of Environment. In this research, according to the existing legal regulations and rules regarding the crime of environmental terrorism in international law, we will analyze, examine and compile the criteria of ecoterrorism in the international environmental law to protect the common heritage of humanity. Destruction of the environment or its threat can be called "terrorism" if: a) the act or threat violates national or international laws governing the disturbance of the environment in peacetime or wartime; and b) the act or threat has the essential characteristics of terrorism. That is, the act or threat of violence has specific goals and violence is a symbolic goal. An act of environmental destruction can only be called "environmental terrorism" when the latter two criteria are met, and when the environment is used by the perpetrator as a valid symbol that causes fear in the larger population to the environmental consequences of the act.

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 4, Issue 4 - Serial Number 16
February 2022
Pages 1451-1466

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