Research Catalog

Title

Judging war criminals : the politics of international justice / Yves Beigbeder ; foreword by Theo van Boven.

Author

Beigbeder, Yves.

Publication

Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Description

xvii, 230 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In June 1998 diplomats from all countries belonging to the United Nations met in Rome to draft the statute of a permanent International Criminal Court - a daring innovation." "Genocides and mass slaughters have occurred in many countries and have remained unpunished. National courts are notoriously weak in sanctioning their own nationals. Truth and reconciliation commissions complement but do not replace justice. Hence, this book argues, the need for a permanent, international criminal court, with the hope that its creation may combat impunity and deter more crimes."--Jacket.

Subject

• International criminal courts
• War criminals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Humanitarian law: from normative thrust to criminal enforcement -- The Nuremberg precedent -- The Tokyo trial -- The hidden, denied and unpunished mass crimes -- Truth and reconciliation -- Impunity, national justice and foreign courts -- International people's tribunals -- The international tribunal for crimes in the former Yugoslavia -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda -- The slow birth of an international criminal court -- International justice and politics.

ISBN

• 0312216491 (cloth)
• 0333681533

LCCN

^^^98025629^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library