From the publisher. Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received …
This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African au…
This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African au…
"Beyond the Green Zone is Dahr Jamail's critically acclaimed, indispensable account of life in Iraq under U.S. occupation. Named by AlterNet as one of the top three progressive books of 2007, alongside Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater, Beyond the …
Die durch das Römische Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes angestoßenen Entwicklungen im Völkerstrafrecht führen dazu, dass auch auf der nationalen Ebene Rechtsgrundlagen zur Verfolgung von Verbrechen gegen das Völkerrecht notwendig werden. Das neue deutsche Völkerstra…
Exploring Puritanical cultural habits in the 21st century American military, the following study focuses on U.S. Army courts-martial in the Global War on Terrorism. The study uses Emile Durkheim's original sociological interpretation of crime and deviance. That interpretation is…
Throughout history, warring parties have contravened norms or laws that prescribe the protection of noncombatant civilians, and wars have often wreaked tremendous havoc on civilian populations. In this dissertation, I investigate conditions under which state leaders embroiled in…
On July 25, 1950, an American infantry unit killed a large number of refugees near the South Korean village of No Gun Ri. On December 12, 1948, a British patrol killed twenty-five civilians near the Malayan village of Batang Kali. On March 16, 1993, members of the Canadian Airbo…
Contemporary research and public discourse have recently drawn attention to the different perspectives of men and women on their social, political and cultural environment. However, when it comes to the topic of the identity and behavior of perpetrators in concentration and exte…
Na justiça internacional muitos são os temas controversos e discutidos pela doutrina, no âmbito dos quais ainda não foi possível chegar a um consenso alargado. Os conflitos jurisdicionais, entre instâncias internacionais, são uma dessas temáticas. A isto, acresce o facto de esta…
This study examines the history of war crimes trials. Through a comparative study of the ICTY, ICTR and the Gacaca Courts of Rwanda it is determined that localized war crimes trials are the optimal justice mechanism for post conflict Afghanistan. This paper goes on to explain th…
This minor-dissertation will critically analyse the relationship between two of the general principles of IHL, namely, the principle of distinction and the principle of proportionality, illustrating that the principle of distinction should be associated with a higher level of si…
"For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much …
"For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much …
The 400-plus entries in Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia provide accessible and concise information on the difficult subject of abject human violence committed on all continents. The entries in this two-volume work describe atrocities, massacres, and war cr…
