Because mass atrocities are organized crimes, crippling the means to organize and sustain them--money, communications networks, and other resources--can disrupt their execution, writes George Lopez.

The Responsibility to Protect: A New International Norm?

Mar 13th, 2012

What is Responsibility to Protect exactly? Dutch Ambassador Herman Schaper gives an expert talk on how it developed, how it is defined, how it was implemented in Libya, and what are the implications for the future.

The Ethics of a Justice Imposed: Ratko Mladic's Arrest and the Costs of Conditionality

Jun 2nd, 2011

For Serbians, material incentives, not a moral imperative, are the main motivation for compliance with the International Criminal Tribunal. Thus Serbia has succeeded in aspects of criminal justice, but has failed to partake in transitional just

The Responsibility to Protect: Growing Pains or Early Promise? [Full Text]

Sep 28th, 2010

The ability of RtoP to deliver has been mixed, but it is a bit early in RtoP's young life to judge what it will be when it grows up as a mature policy tool. There is reason to question, as well, whether Somalia and Darfur are the best tests of

Should We Stop the Next Genocide?

Aug 19th, 2010

Should the United States, as the world's greatest military power, use its might to prevent the next outbreak of ethnic violence from turning into a full-fledged genocide? The answer is not an easy one, writes security affairs analyst Erik Schec

Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The "International Community" and Mass Atrocities [Full Text]

Sep 11th, 2009

Most of the large-scale violence in the world will continue to occur within societies rather than between or among states. Yet the international community still has not developed the ethical-legal consensus or the institutions required to manag

International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation [Full Text]

Dec 30th, 2008

Peskin's analysis focuses on "virtual trials": the battles by ad hoc criminal tribunals to secure state cooperation in the enforcement of international law. Concentrating on this under-explored theme, this book is a major contribution to the li

Genocide and Aftermath: Rationalizing the Process of Truth and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jul 13th, 2005

Transcript of a panel and commemorative event of the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica, held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in collaboration with the Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with the Council in an advisory role.

Bearing Witness to Genocide: Rwanda, Darfur, and the Implications for Future Peacekeeping Operations

Feb 11th, 2005

In 1994, General Dallaire was the commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda and powerless to stop the massacre of 800,000 people, who were slaughtered in 100 days. Yet just as in Rwanda ten years ago, the UN is reluctant to use the word

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Apr 11th, 2002

Why did the United States largely ignore the Rwandan genocide and yet devote endless time to the contemporaneous Bosnian crisis? According to Samantha Power, the reason is "politics, politics, politics."

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