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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Vestnik RUDN. International Relations</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-0660</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-0679</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Российский университет дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы» (РУДН)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">16065</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-0660-2017-17-2-301-311</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THEMATIC DOSSIER</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ТЕМАТИЧЕСКОЕ ДОСЬЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Reparation a morale justice for Africa: the Benin (Nigeria) in perspective</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Возмещение морального ущерба Африке: на примере Бенинского царства (Нигерия)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Idahosa</surname><given-names>Stephen Osaherumwen</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Идахоса</surname><given-names>Стефен Осахерумвен</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>idahosa8@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Onimhawo</surname><given-names>John Afeagbokhai</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Онимхаво</surname><given-names>Джон Афеабокай</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>onims_j54@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ikhidero</surname><given-names>Solomon Ijeweimen</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Ихидеро</surname><given-names>Соломон Айджевайнен</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>solomonikhidero@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ambrose Alli University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Эмброуза Алли</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>17</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">The Ideology, morality and international relations: the experience of the East and West</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Идеология, мораль и международные отношения: опыт Востока и Запада</issue-title><fpage>301</fpage><lpage>311</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2017-05-15"><day>15</day><month>05</month><year>2017</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2017, Idahosa S.O., Onimhawo J.A., Ikhidero S.I.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2017, Идахоса С.О., Онимхаво Д.А., Ихидеро С.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Idahosa S.O., Onimhawo J.A., Ikhidero S.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Идахоса С.О., Онимхаво Д.А., Ихидеро С.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/16065">https://journals.rudn.ru/international-relations/article/view/16065</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The paper offered a review of Africa’s moral call for reparation. It emphasized among other things that the continued underdevelopment and marginalization of the African continent today, is not unconnected with the trilogy of slavery, imperialism and colonialism. From the perspective of the British expedition of the Great Benin Kingdom in 1897, the paper highlighted how the African continent had been brutalized to strengthen the economies of their colonial overlords. The paper anchored its call for reparation on the premise that, reparation is not only recognized in international law, it has been paid to countries of the world whose dehumanizing experiences are not even as pathetic as those of Africa’s over 500 years of abject treatment, damages and destruction occasioned by slavery, imperialism and colonialism. It unveiled also the scholarly argument opposed to reparation. The work thus proposes that reparations from the western countries to Africa should be on cooperative and partnership basis. This should be in favour of development through deliberate international efforts in recompensing Africa for all the ills visited on her by the west.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">В данной статье предлагается анализ призыва Африки к возмещению морального ущерба. В ней, среди прочего, подчеркивается, что продолжающееся отставание в развитии и маргинализация Африканского континента на сегодняшний день связаны, в том числе с наследием рабства, империализма и колониализма. На примере британской экспедиции в Бенинское царство в 1897 г. авторы данного исследования делают вывод, что Африканский континент подвергся жестокому обращению ради укрепления экономик метрополий. В ней также проводится анализ репараций, которые не только признаются международным правом, но и выплачиваются ряду пострадавших стран, которые не испытывали столь длительного и бесчеловечного обращения, как Африка на протяжении более 500 лет, долгих лет ущерба и разрушения, вызванных рабством, империализмом и колониализмом. Также в статье рассмотрены точки зрения, которые отрицают идею о возмещении ущерба. Авторы приходят к выводу, что репарации западных стран Африканскому континенту должны осуществляться на основе сотрудничества и партнерства. Это должно идти на пользу развитию африканских стран и реализовываться путем продуманных международных усилий по компенсации.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>reparations</kwd><kwd>Imperialism</kwd><kwd>Colonialism</kwd><kwd>Justice</kwd><kwd>Western Powers</kwd><kwd>Benin Kingdom</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>репарации</kwd><kwd>империализм</kwd><kwd>колониализм</kwd><kwd>справедливость</kwd><kwd>западные державы</kwd><kwd>Бенинское царство</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Brophy, A. L. (2006). Reconsidering Reparations. Indiana Law Journal, 81 (3), 812-849</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Brophy, A. L. (2004). The Cultural War over Reparations for Slavery. DePaul Law Review. 53 (3), 1181-1213</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>Brownlie, I. (1979). Principles of International Law. 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