Research Catalog

Title

Peace and justice : seeking accountability after war / Rachel Kerr and Eirin Mobekk.

Author

Kerr, Rachel

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mobekk, Eirin

Description

xii, 243 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Taking as its starting point the post-World War II tribunals at Nuremburg and Tokyo, this book goes on to discuss the creation of ad hoc international tribunals in the 1990s, hybrid/mixed courts, the International Criminal Court, domestic trials, Truth Commissions, and traditional justice mechanisms.

Alternative Title

Peace & justice

Subjects

• Truth commissions
• War crime trials
• Peace-building
• Mediation, International

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Peace and Justice: An introduction 1 -- Transitional/Post-Conflict Justice 3 -- Risks and Dangers 8 -- Context, Context and Context 10 -- 1 The Nuremberg Legacy 18 -- Nuremberg and Tokyo 18 -- International Humanitarian Law post-1945 22 -- International Criminal Law (ICL) 24 -- Human Rights Law 25 -- 2 Ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals: The ICTY and ICTR 30 -- International Judicial Intervention 31 -- Establishing a Court and Launching Investigations 34 -- Jurisdiction and Procedure 37 -- State Cooperation and Judicial Assistance 39 -- Justice, Peace and Reconciliation 43 -- Box 2.1 The Yugoslav War 53 -- Box 2.2 Rwanda 54 -- 3 The International Criminal Court 58 -- Establishing the Court: The Rome Statute 59 -- Jurisdiction and Admissibility 61 -- Applicable Law 62 -- The 'Essential Paradox' of Complementarity 63 -- The Role of the Prosecutor 64 -- The Relationship with the Security Council 65 -- The United States and the ICC 66 -- International Criminal Justice and International Peace and Security 67 -- Engaging the Local Population and Meeting Victims' Needs 68 -- Peace and Justice? 69 -- Box 3.1 Situations and cases 72 -- Box 3.2 Universal jurisdiction 77 -- 4 'Internationalized' Courts 80 -- A New Breed of Tribunal? 81 -- Justice, Peace and Reconciliation 89 -- Box 4.1 The Special Court for Sierra Leone 95 -- Box 4.2 Regulation 64 Panels in Kosovo 97 -- Box 4.3 Special crime panels in Timor-Leste 99 -- Box 4.4 'Extraordinary chambers' in Cambodia 101 -- 5 Domestic Trials 104 -- Rights and Obligations in International Law 105 -- Judicial Reform: A Primary Hurdle for Domestic Trials 107 -- Political and Practical Obstacles to Domestic Trials 109 -- Benefits of Domestic Trials 120 -- Box 5.1 Rwanda 123 -- Box 5.2 The Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court 124 -- Box 5.3 The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal 126 -- 6 Truth Commissions 128 -- Definitional Clarity 129 -- Design and Resources 130 -- 'Truth' and 'Reconciliation' 133 -- Restorative Justice: Healing and Retraumatization 136 -- Additional Benefits and Limitations of Truth Commissions 138 -- Box 6.1 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the DRC 146 -- Box 6.2 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa 148 -- Box 6.3 The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador 149 -- 7 Traditional Informal Justice Mechanisms 151 -- Conceptual Clarity 152 -- The Context of TIJM 155 -- Dealing with Past Crimes: Challenges of TIJM 156 -- Promoting Reconciliation 164 -- Box 7.1 Timor-Leste 169 -- Box 7.2 Gacaca courts in Rwanda 171 -- Justice, Peace and Reconciliation 174 -- Capacity-building and the Rule of Law 176 -- Context 178 -- Engaging the Local Population 180 -- Integrated and Complementary Approaches 180 -- Managing Expectations and Setting Realistic Goals 181.

ISBN

• 9780745634227 (hbk.)
• 0745634222 (hbk.)
• 0745634230 (pbk.)
• 9780745634234 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 156816344
• SCSB-10496919

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library