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Book Hiding in Plain Sight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Stover
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-04-12
  • ISBN : 0520278054
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Eric Stover and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of an estimated thirty thousand Nazi war criminals after the Second World War, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and the Rwandan genocide, and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court and America's pursuit of suspected terrorists in the aftermath of 9/11, the book explores the range of diplomatic and military strategies--both successful and unsuccessful--that states and international courts have adopted to pursue and capture war crimes suspects. It is a story fraught with broken promises, backroom politics, ethical dilemmas, and daring escapades--all in the name of international justice and human rights. In this exhaustively researched and compelling written work of political and judicial history, the authors argue that while the legal and operational regimes needed to apprehend and deliver suspected war criminals to justice are largely in place, the political will on the part of states to make arrests happen in a consistent and apolitical manner remains elusive. And until this situation is rectified, murderers will get away with murder, and torturers will retire with pensions"--Provided by publisher.

Book The President on Trial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Weill
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-27
  • ISBN : 0192602268
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book The President on Trial written by Sharon Weill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissène Habré's security forces. Decades later, Habré was finally prosecuted for his role in these atrocities not in his own country or in The Hague, but across the African continent, at the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal. By some accounts, Habré's trial and conviction by a specially built court in Dakar is the most significant achievement of global criminal justice in the past decade. Simply creating a court and commencing a trial against a deposed head of state was an extraordinary success. With its 2016 judgment, affirmed on appeal in 2017, the hybrid tribunal in Senegal exceeded expectations, working to deadlines and within its budget, with no murdered witnesses or self-dealing officials. This book details and contextualizes the Habré trial. It presents the trial and its impact using a novel structure of first-person accounts from 26 direct actors (Part I), accompanied by academic analysis from leading experts on international criminal justice (Part II). Combined, these views present both local and international perspectives through distinct but inter-locking parts: empirical source material from understudied actors both within and outside the court is then contextualized with expert analysis that reflects on the construction and work of: the Extraordinary African Chamber (EAC) as well as wider themes of international criminal law. Together with an introduction laying out the work and significance of the EAC and its trial of Hissène Habré, the book is a comprehensive consideration of a history-making trial.

Book By all means necessary  Protecting civilians and preventing mass atrocities in Africa

Download or read book By all means necessary Protecting civilians and preventing mass atrocities in Africa written by Dan Kuwali and published by PULP. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crimes against Humanity in the 21st Century

Download or read book Crimes against Humanity in the 21st Century written by Robert Dubler SC and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crimes Against Humanity in the 21st Century, Dr Robert Dubler SC and Matthew Kalyk provide a comprehensive analysis of crimes against humanity in international criminal law, including an analysis of its history, its present definition and its raison d'être. With a foreword by Geoffrey Robertson QC.

Book    My Clan Against the World     U S  and Coalition Forces in Somalia 1992 1994

Download or read book My Clan Against the World U S and Coalition Forces in Somalia 1992 1994 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the American military's experience with urban operations in Somalia, particularly in the capital city of Mogadishu. That original focus can be found in the following pages, but the authors address other, broader issues as well, to include planning for a multinational intervention; workable and unworkable command and control arrangements; the advantages and problems inherent in coalition operations; the need for cultural awareness in a clan-based society whose status as a nation-state is problematic; the continuous adjustments required by a dynamic, often unpredictable situation; the political dimension of military activities at the operational and tactical levels; and the ability to match military power and capabilities to the mission at hand.

Book Idriss Deby and the Darfur Conflict

Download or read book Idriss Deby and the Darfur Conflict written by Ésaïe Toïngar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idriss Deby Itno, current ruler of Chad, is the unacknowledged cause of much of the war and mayhem in central Africa. He is responsible for ethnic violence against his own people; the instigation of two wars in Sudan; the removal of the democratically elected presidents of the two neighboring countries; involvement in war in the Democratic Republic of Congo; an international counterfeiting operation; and the theft of diamonds and property across the region. Deby commits crimes against humanity, subverts election law and his nation's constitution, and is greatly responsible for the Darfur and Central African Republic crises but has not been held responsible by the international community, and the French government in particular seems to trust him to protect its regional economic interests, regardless of the human cost. Deby's transgressions have until now received little attention, a humanitarian oversight remedied by this work.

Book Humanity s Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruti G. Teitel
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2011-10-07
  • ISBN : 0195370910
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Humanity s Law written by Ruti G. Teitel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teitel presents an analysis of a recent change in international human-rights law. Offering examples from around the world she argues that post-Cold War history has witnessed a key transformation: the normative emphasis of the international legal order has been shifting from state security to human security.

Book Political Trials in Theory and History

Download or read book Political Trials in Theory and History written by Jens Meierhenrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.

Book International Extradition

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Cherif Bassiouni
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199917892
  • Pages : 1330 pages

Download or read book International Extradition written by M. Cherif Bassiouni and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition remains, as its preceding ones, the most comprehensive text on the subject of international extradition, as practiced in and by the United States, and in general about the international practice of extradition". -- FOREWORD.

Book Michigan Journal of International Law

Download or read book Michigan Journal of International Law written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International   Transnational Criminal Law

Download or read book International Transnational Criminal Law written by Robert John Currie and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, as it is part of the "Essentials of Canadian Law" series, a major goal of the book is to explore fully the nexus between these bodies of international law and Canadian domestic law--and help Canadian courts and lawyers engage successfully with the international aspects of the cases they work on. Accordingly, the book contains: a stand-alone chapter on the prosecution of international crimes before Canadian courts; a detailed examination of how the various transnational crime treaties are implemented in Canadian law; and a full chapter on Canadian extradition and mutual legal assistance law and practice.

Book The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice

Download or read book The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice written by M. Cherif Bassiouni and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication includes a survey of world conflicts that occurred between 1945 and 2008, the level of victimization they produced, and the subsequent post-conflict justice (PCJ) mechanisms which were applied. It is intended to show the scope of the problem faced by international criminal justice (ICJ), and how the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to shape its mission and approach to address ICJ needs and expectations. -- From publisher's description.

Book Criminal Law Forum

Download or read book Criminal Law Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Retreat from Doomsday

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mueller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781934849170
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Retreat from Doomsday written by John Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Register and Manual   State of Connecticut

Download or read book Register and Manual State of Connecticut written by Connecticut. Secretary of the State and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Closing the impunity gap

Download or read book Closing the impunity gap written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International conventions allow and in some cases oblige the Government to give our courts criminal jurisdiction over the world's most heinous crimes, including genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and hostage-taking. However, the Government has chosen not to implement those conventions to the full extent possible, leaving inconsistencies and gaps in the law. These gaps effectively provide impunity to international criminals, allowing them to visit and in some cases stay in the UK without fear of prosecution. The Government has also chosen not to give the courts jurisdiction to allow victims of torture to sue the foreign states who tortured or approved torture. The Torture (Damages) Bill would provide an exception to state immunity for torture and therefore allow torture victims to pursue their torturers for reparations, even if the torturers are states or states' agents. The Government should ensure the full force of UK law is behind victims of international crimes.

Book Public Opinion

Download or read book Public Opinion written by Walter Lippmann and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is widely considered the most influential book ever written by Walter Lippmann, the late journalist and social critic provides a fundamental treatise on the nature of human information and communication. The work is divided into eight parts, covering such varied issues as stereotypes, image making, and organized intelligence. The study begins with an analysis of "the world outside and the pictures in our heads", a leitmotif that starts with issues of censorship and privacy, speed, words, and clarity, and ends with a careful survey of the modern newspaper. Lippmann's conclusions are as meaningful in a world of television and computers as in the earlier period when newspapers were dominant. Public Opinion is of enduring significance for communications scholars, historians, sociologists, and political scientists. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.