Atrocities and international accountability
Subtitle: beyond transitional justice
By: edited by Edel Hughes, William A. Schabas and Ramesh Thakur.
Contributors: Hughes, Edel.; Schabas, William, 1950-; Thakur, Ramesh Chandra, 1948-
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789280811414
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; Criminal liability; Atrocities; Truth commissions; Reconciliation -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to come to terms with the past / Peter R. Baehr; title: Does power trump morality? reconciliation or transitional justice? / Rama Mani; title: Transitional justice and conflict termination : Mozambique, Rwanda and South Africa assessed / Helena Cobban; title: All the truth but only some justice? dilemmas of dealing with the past in new democracies / Jorge Heine; title: East Timor's search for justice, reconciliation and dignity / Jeff Kingston; title: No substitute for sovereignty : why international criminal justice has a bleak future  and deserves it / Jeremy Rabkin; title: Dancing with the devil: prosecuting West Africa's warlords : current lessons learned and challenges / David M. Crane; title: The development of prosecutorial discretion in international criminal courts / Matthew Brubacher; title: Alternatives to prosecution : the case of Rwanda / Gerald Gahima; title: Independence and impartiality of the international judiciary : some lessons learned, and some ignored / William A. Schabas; title: Impartiality deficit and international criminal judging / Diane Marie Amann; title: The effect of amnesties before domestic and international tribunals : morality, law and politics / Leila Nadya Sadat; title: Trading justice for peace : the contemporary law and policy debate / Michael P. Scharf; title: Concluding remarks : the questions that still remain / William A. Schabas and Ramesh Thakur.