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The ICJ pronounced that the obligation is not just to sit down and talk about global nuclear disarmament. It is to make it happen. One obvious outcome would be a Nuclear Weapons Convention outlawing nuclear weapons just as treaties have banned land mines and chemical and biological weapons - and now cluster bombs. The Convention would prohibit the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, transfer, threat, or use of nuclear weapons.
At the heart of Good Faith is trust that the parties to negotiations mean what they say and will carry out their promises. Good Faith is taken for granted at the start of negotiations and must be shown in the quest for a Nuclear Weapons Convention.
In relations between states good faith occupies exceptional importance. It is the guarantor of international stability, because it allows state A to foresee the behaviour of its partner, state B, and thus makes it possible for the former to align its behaviour on that of the latter: Mohammed Bedjaoui former President of the World Court, speaking in Geneva, May 2008.
For,the average person Good Faith should be the starting point. It is the way most people want to live their lives. Our Project sees it in a legal context but it has wider moral and social overtones, such as trust, integrity and honour, which we can take some account of in reaching out to the public. In law Good Faith applies to many issues including, for example, Climate Change. You can read more details about this here.
Trust plays an important part in all types of relations, between persons as well as between states. Without trust international society would be a jungle or chaos. Individuals, states and even animals submit themselves to a social order based above all on the exclusion of deceitful behaviour:
Mohammed Bedjaoui former President of the World Court, speaking in Geneva, May 2008.