Boko Life Justice — Nora Ii Human Rights ⊂ Life Rights
Year: 2026
Type: book
Abstract: BOKO LIFE JUSTICE — NORA II proposes a life-centered framework for evaluating the harms of armed conflict beyond conventional anthropocentric casualty accounting. Its foundational normative proposition, Human Rights ⊂ Life Rights, does not diminish the fundamental status of human rights; rather, it situates them within a broader moral architecture that also recognizes non-human life, ecosystems, life-supporting environmental systems, and future generations. NORA II addresses a central blind spot in conventional conflict assessment: wars occur within living systems, yet their consequences are predominantly quantified through human casualties and material destruction. Military actions may simultaneously kill or displace humans and non-human animals, destroy vegetation and habitats, contaminate soil and water, disrupt ecological networks, eliminate carbon sinks, generate persistent environmental damage, and transfer recovery burdens across generations. To address this gap, NORA II REV 5.1 develops an integrated accountability architecture linking Visibility → Measurement → Causation → Attribution → Responsibility → Representation → Enforcement → Restoration → Prevention of Recurrence. Its methodological core is the Total Conflict Harm Architecture (TCHA), a nine-dimensional framework covering Human, Animal, Flora, Soil, Water, Ecosystem, Climate, Generational, and Recovery harms (H–A–F–S–W–E–C–G–R). TCHA is designed primarily as a multidimensional dashboard rather than a single aggregate score. Where comparative normalization is justified, a secondary Total Conflict Harm Index (TCHI) may be explored, subject to explicit controls for inter-dimensional dependency, double counting, weighting sensitivity, normalization sensitivity, and uncertainty propagation. The framework further introduces the Causality and Attribution Protocol (CAP) for distinguishing direct, indirect, delayed, systemic, threshold-mediated, pre-existing, conflict-aggravated, multifactorial, and indeterminate harms. It explicitly maintains that Scientific Attribution ≠ Legal Attribution ≠ Criminal Responsibility and that CAP Attribution ≠ Legal Judgment. REV 5.1 additionally develops a bounded I0–I5 irreversibility scale, critical ecological threshold analysis, the Minimum Responsibility Floor, Capacity-Adjusted Responsibility, the Deliberate Capacity Suppression Principle, Military Eco-Transparency, preservation of environmental evidence, the Guardian of Life institutional architecture, Ecological Restoration Debt, Irreversible Ecological Loss, and Substitutive Ecological Obligations. NORA II distinguishes existing law (lex lata), interpretive development, proposed future norms (lex ferenda), and methodological tools. It therefore does not present its proposed standards as already binding international law and does not replace existing international humanitarian law. The framework’s principal contribution lies not in claiming chronological priority over life-centered ethics or the rights of nature, but in integrating dispersed ethical, ecological, forensic, methodological, and legal elements into a unified and testable architecture for conflict-related life harm. Its ultimate objective is a transition from counting only human casualties toward accounting for harm across living systems, while preserving the independent moral and legal visibility of human suffering. Human Rights ⊂ Life Rights. Keywords Life Justice; Life Rights; Human Rights; NORA II; Armed Conflict; Environmental Harm; Ecological Justice; International Humanitarian Law; Rights of Nature; Non-Human Life; Conflict Ecology; Environmental Accountability; Total Conflict Harm Architecture; TCHA; Total Conflict Harm Index; TCHI; Causality and Attribution Protocol; CAP; Ecological Restoration; Irreversible Ecological Loss; Intergenerational Justice; Environmental Evidence; Guardian of Life; Military Eco-Transparency; Anthropocentrism
Author: Boko, Irfan
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204885437