The International Responsibility of International Organisations addresses the joint responsibility of organisations for violations of international law committed during the deployment of peacekeeping operations. More specifically, it inquires if and under which circumstances - in terms of the notion of control - international organisations can be jointly responsible. The author analyses the practice of international organisations (the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States) on an inter-institutional level, as well as in the field in the form of five case studies. The likelihood and distribution of responsibility between international organisations engaged in peacekeeping operations is affected by the different layers of applicable primary norms (Security Council mandates, internal law of the organisations, international humanitarian and human rights law). Although external pressure may contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of holding international organisations jointly responsible, any substantial measures and mechanisms can only be implemented with the participation of states and international organisations.

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The cities of the future, rather than being made of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood." Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, 2006 In their most recent works, Oliver Boberg and Peter Bialobrzeski, two veteran artists at L.A. Gallery, have both dealt with the topic of buildings in poor urban neighborhoods of the Southern hemisphere. A juxtaposition of the two workgroups thus suggested itself, and is especially enlightening since the works bear motivic and formal similarities despite having originated in entirely dif ferent ways.

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