War crimes

This book is a well-researched and moving account of how sexual assault on women has become a potent weapon in virtually all armed conflicts.

Why do countries adopt criminal legislation making it possible to prosecute government and military officials for human rights violations?

In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D.

In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice.

Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited.

It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG).

“One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict” from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the most influential textbooks in the field of international criminal justice.

This important reference work offers students a comprehensive overview of the Cambodian Genocide, with more than 90 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes, supplemented by key primary source documents.

Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "e;disappeared"e;--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War.

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - ShortlistedOn April 5, 1999, Serbian police found a truck half-submerged in the Danube River.

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again.

Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world.

Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrongdoing is more common in Western societies than might be expected.

This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone researching the scourge of mass murder in the 20th and 21st centuries, effectively using primary source documents to help them understand all aspects of genocide.

This proposes a new framework for atrocity prevention, featuring scholars from around the globe including three former UN special advisers.

En un mundo donde los conflictos bélicos son una noticia cotidiana que genera tensión e incertidumbre, aparejado con el debilitamiento que sufre el pensamiento práctico para distinguir entre una guerra y otros eventos, tales como los delitos internacionales, esta obra desentraña los casos en los que un estado u otro sujeto de derecho internacional público puede declarar una "guerra justa" a otro, a la luz de las reflexiones y los escritos del fraile dominico Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546), considerado por algunos como el padre del derecho internacional.

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "e;forever war"e;-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.

International Criminal Procedure: Principles and Rules is a comprehensive study of international criminal proceedings written by over forty leading experts in the field.

This book provides readers with a critical analysis of the restorative justice efforts of the Ovaherero and Nama communities in Namibia, who contend that they should receive reparations for what happened to their ancestors during, and after the 1904-1908 German-Ovaherero/Nama war.

Aktivistinnen, Völkerrechtler, Anwälte, NGO-Mitarbeiterinnen, Politiker und Politikerinnen erzählen, was der Einsatz für Menschenrechte in ihrem Leben bedeutet hat.

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New perspectives on the history of famine-and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming.

In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies.

New perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah.

International criminal law and justice is a flourishing field which has led, in recent years, to new international criminal tribunals and new mechanisms for investigation and holding criminals to account.

Despite the recent growth of interest in international criminal law, in research and practice, the Tokyo International Military Tribunal remains largely neglected.

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeThe chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life after the darkest night in Jewish history.

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'.

International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law.

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict.

In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

It is estimated that 20,000 people were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years.

This volume provides an indispensable resource for anyone studying the Holocaust.

This study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now.

Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Churchs role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliationFrom April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG).

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred.

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution.

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars around the globe.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.

Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from “perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review).

Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics.