All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals - Couverture souple

Livre 4 sur 17: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity

Scheffer, David

 
9780691157849: All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
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ISBN 10 : 0691157847 ISBN 13 : 9780691157849
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to be

Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court. All the Missing Souls is Scheffer's gripping insider's account of the international gamble to prosecute those responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and to redress some of the bloodiest human rights atrocities in our time.

Scheffer reveals the truth behind Washington's failures during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the anemic hunt for notorious war criminals, how American exceptionalism undercut his diplomacy, and the perilous quests for accountability in Kosovo and Cambodia. He takes readers from the killing fields of Sierra Leone to the political back rooms of the U.N. Security Council, providing candid portraits of major figures such as Madeleine Albright, Anthony Lake, Richard Goldstone, Louise Arbour, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, Richard Holbrooke, and Wesley Clark, among others.

A stirring personal account of an important historical chapter, All the Missing Souls provides new insights into the continuing struggle for international justice.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Scheffer is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. He led American initiatives on war crimes tribunals during the 1990s, served as the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues (1997-2001), and was named one of Foreign Policy's "Top Global Thinkers of 2011."

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691157847
ISBN 13 
9780691157849
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
552
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0691140154 ISBN 13 :  9780691140155
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2011
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