Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Accountability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Other Serious Violations of Human Rights / M. Cherif Bassiouni

3

Progress and Humility: The Ongoing Search for Post-Conflict Justice / Neil J. Kritz

55

International Law Principles on Accountability / Michael P. Scharf Nigel Rodley

89

Civil Society in Processes of Accountability / Naomi Roht-Arriaza

97

The Role of Justice in Peace Negotiations / Paul R. Williams

115

Lacking a Leviathan: The Quandaries of Peace and Accountability / Madeline Morris

135

A Philosophical Perspective on Accountability and Post-Conflict Justice: Setting Up the Premises / Anja Matwijkiw

155

Psychology of Impunity and Injustice: Implications for Social Reconciliation / Susan Opotow

201

Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: Reflections on Reparations / John Torpey

217

Appendix: Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2002/44 (23 April 2002); The Right to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2000/62 (18 Jan. 2000)

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Proposed Guiding Principles for Combating Impunity for International Crimes / M. Cherif Bassiouni

255

Documenting, Acknowledging and Publicizing the Truth / Jason S. Abrams Priscilla Hayner

283

Truth Commissions / Rodolfo Mattarollo

295

Do Truth Commissions Promote Accountability or Impunity? The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Benjamin N. Schiff

325

An Evaluation of the Legality and Efficacy of Lustration as a Tool of Transitional Justice / Roman Boed

345

Public Law and the Construction of Collective Memory / Brian F. Havel

383

Appendix: Excerpts from Treaties, United Nations Resolutions, and United Nations Reports on Accountability and Post-Conflict Justice

399

The United Nations Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Former Yugoslavia / M. Cherif Bassiouni

429

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / Megan Kaszubinski

459

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Roman Boed

487

The Rwanda Case: Sometimes It's Impossible / William A. Schabas

499

United Nations Governance of Post-Conflict Societies: East Timor and Kosovo / Michael J. Matheson

523

Appendix: United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor Regulation No. 2000/15 (6 June 2000), On the Establishment of Panels with Exclusive Jurisdiction over Serious Criminal Offences; Regulation No. 2001/10 (13 July 2001), On the Establishment of a Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor

537

Post-Conflict Justice in Sierra Leone / Jennifer L. Poole

563

Appendix: Documents from the Sierra Leonean Peace Process

593

Accountability for the Khmer Rouge: A (Lack of) Progress Report / Steven R. Ratner

613

Appendix: Report of the Group of Experts for Cambodia Established Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 52/135

623

The Conflict in Cambodia and Post-Conflict Justice / Aaron J. Buckley

635

Appendix: Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, 2001

659

The Ethiopian "Red Terror" Trials / Wondwossen L. Kidane

667

Post-Conflict in Chechnya: Faltering Justice / I. Maxine Marcus

695

Unfinished Business: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Contribution to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Paul van Zyl

745

The Transition to Democracy and Institution Building: The Case of Haiti / Rodolfo Mattarollo

763

The Limits of Truth Commissions in the Search for Justice: An Analysis of the Truth Commissions of El Salvador and Guatemala and Their Effect in Achieving Post-Conflict Justice / Paul Seils

775

Public Law Mythmaking and Collective Memory: The Case of Austria / Brian F. Havel

797

The Universal Model: The International Criminal Court / M. Cherif Bassiouni

813

Civil-Military Cooperation in Restoring the Rule of Law: Case Studies from Mogadishu to Mitrovica / Frederick M. Lorenz

829

An Evolving "Post-Conflict" Role for the Military: Providing a Secure Environment and Supporting the Rule of Law / Michael Dziedzic Benjamin Lovelock

851

Soldiers as Cops, Judges and Jailers: Law Enforcement by the U.S. Military in Peace Operations / Alton Gwaltney III Cody M. Weston

863

Problems of Investigations into War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity During and After Ethnic Conflicts / Raymond McGrath

893

International Cooperation in Prosecution and Punishment / Ekkehart Muller-Rappard

913

International Legal Assistance / Mark S. Ellis

921

Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Practice / M. Cherif Bassiouni

945

Appendix: The Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction

1003

The Future of Immunities in International Criminal Law / Bruce Broomhall

1007

Index

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