Essay Plan Proposed Title: From Diplomacy to Judgment: Peaceful Settlement of the Qatar–Bahrain Dispute Instructions: Your essay should be in Word, double-spaced, and using 12pt Times New Roman or Arial font. It will go through Turnitin plagiarism software before marking. You will have 4,000 words overall for this assessment (inclusive of footnotes but excluding bibliography). The University’s 10% leeway applies to this assignment (i.e. you can write 3600-4400 words). Please write the word count on the front page. You are expected to use references in footnotes to indicate the primary and secondary sources that you have used to write your answers, in the same way as you do for research essays. You must use the OSCOLA style of referencing As the Law School uses anonymous marking, please ensure that you do not include your name anywhere within the document, in the headers/footers, or in the file name. Assessment criteria Students are assessed on the extent to which the research project/essay: • Demonstrates critical awareness and systematic, advanced knowledge processes and procedures of peaceful settlement of international disputes between states, including relevant legal and policy issues associated with the establishment and functioning of international courts and tribunals (PSID, LO.1) • Locates, explains and employs relevant legal and non-legal sources in the construction of knowledge (PSID, LO.2 and LO.3) • Evidences a critical engagement with scholarship and ideas to evaluate and critique knowledge on international dispute settlement (PSID, LO.3) • Appraises challenges and issues pertaining to settlement of international disputes, and devises and justifies solutions to challenges and issues in international dispute settlement (PSID, LO.4) • Advances a critical and reasoned argument as based on evaluation and synthesis of competing perspectives (PSID, LO.5) • Presents and articulates ideas, arguments and knowledge in a coherent, logical manner, demonstrating a command of written academic English, including appropriate citation and referencing (PSID, LO.6)