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For humanity : reflections of a war crimes investigator
- Title
- For humanity : reflections of a war crimes investigator / Richard J. Goldstone ; with a foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor.
- Author
- Goldstone, Richard.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.
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- Description
- xxi, 152 pages : maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- Throughout his career, the distinguished South African jurist Richard J. Goldstone has been deeply committed to promoting human rights in his own country and abroad. A justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 1994, he has also served as chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation in South Africa and chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In this engrossing and inspiring book, Justice Goldstone provides an intimate account of his progression from a young activist opposing South Africa's racial policies to the world's first independent war crimes prosecutor. Justice Goldstone begins by describing how he became involved in the transition of South Africa from an apartheid state to a democracy and why he was chosen in late 1992 to head the commission that investigated criminal conduct that accompanied that transition. He then considers his time as chief prosecutor for the United Nations Tribunals, speaking not only of the fundamental legal issues that have arisen but also of his personal experiences and feelings. Arguing in favour of the move toward establishing a permanent international criminal court, he offers a stirring defense of the role of international tribunals in holding human rights violators accountable.
- Series Statement
- The castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics
- Uniform Title
- Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics
- Subject
- Goldstone, Richard
- Goldstone, Richard
- International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Internationaler Strafgerichtshof für Ruanda
- Internationaler Strafgerichtshof für das Ehemalige Jugoslawien
- War crimes > South Africa
- Apartheid > South Africa
- Human rights > South Africa
- Apartheid
- Human rights
- War crimes
- Apartheid
- Kriegsverbrechen
- Oorlogsmisdaden
- Mensenrechten
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- International criminal law
- South Africa
- Südafrika
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.
- Contents
- New challenges : judging injustice -- The Goldstone Commission on Public Violence and Intimidation -- The South African solution : is truth sufficient? -- International justice : the United Nations criminal tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda -- Toward an international criminal court.
- ISBN
- 0300082053
- 9780300082050
- LCCN
- 99086021
- OCLC
- ocm43115015
- 43115015
- SCSB-8933919
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library