mario silva

Mario Silva is a 1st Yr Ph.D student in the Faculty of Law, NUI, Galway.His thesis is entitled "Restoration of Failed States: Addressing Competency Gaps."  The aim of the thesis is to address the ever increasing concern in the international community as state failures increase and the implications of this to international security and peace as well as how to best develop efforts to deal with these situations.  The concept of failed states is an emerging one but has ignited much debate in recent years within the international community, but still is largely remains unaddressed in international law literature. Failed states represent several types of competency gaps in terms of the providing the most basic needs of the citizens of these entities - food, health, education, transparency and security. The thesis argues that international actors attempting to 'fix' failed states need to address these competency gaps that have caused the state to fail in the first place.

 

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, La Sorbonne and has a Mst. International Human Rights Law degree from Oxford.

 

Publications:

"Extraordinary Rendition: A Challenge to Canadian and United States Legal Obligations under the Convention Against Torture", California Western International Law Journal

"Somalia: State Failure, Piracy and the Challenge to International Law", Virginia Journal of International Law

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