SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GROTIUS LECTURE RESPONSE: THE POST-POSTCOLONIAL WOMAN OR CHILD

The speech "The Post-PostColonial Women or Child," by Diane Marie Amman, Dstinguished Discussant for Sixteenth Annual Grotius Lecture Series, delivered to the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, last Apr 9, 2014, is presented. Amman said her first strand addresses Radhika Coomaraswamy's statements of concern about postcolonial theorists whom she has found to be prevalent in the global south. Makers of post-postcolonial international law should aspire to deploy the tools of motivation and action in a way that avoids reviving outdated notions of societal honor, and instead honors the actual humans who endure violence amid war. This is the last strand that she draws from Coomaraswamy's talk, not only because of her express mention of honor killings, but also because of her recognition that "womenandchildren" is not a single word, that discrete attention must be paid to the many different hues of human experience.