Roundtable on Examining Postwar Justice

Director: Elizabeth Neuffer, 1998-99 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
February 1, 1999 - April 1, 1999

This roundtable examined what the aims of post-war justice should be and how the institutions set up to deliver justice have succeeded or failed in meeting those expectations. Participants and speakers drew on victims’ accounts, the work of legal scholars, aid workers and the military to help explore what post-war justice can accomplish. Questions included: is ‘justice’ better delivered by a local court than by an international court?; does it have more impact if it is delivered in the form of truth-telling, rather than a court of law?; and how do other forces involved in post-war reconciliation, like business investment, play a role in spurring justice along? Speakers included Alexander L. Boraine, Aryeh Neier, William L. Nash, USA (Ret.), Diane Paul, and Gabrielle Kirk McDonald. Elizabeth Neuffer is writing a book on post-war justice issues in Bosnia and Rwanda.

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Roundtable Meeting

A Conversation with Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Presider: Anthony Lewis
Speaker: Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, International Criminal Tribunal
May 12, 1999
Roundtable Meeting

Bringing War Criminals to Trial: Undermining Peace of Providing Justice

Presider: Stephen L. Kass
Speakers: Major General William L. Nash, Human Rights Watch
Diane Paul
April 8, 1999
Roundtable Meeting

Bringing War Criminals to Trial: Undermining Peace or Providing Justice?

Presider: Stephen L. Kass, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
Speakers: Major General William L. Nash, National Democratic Institute of International Affairs
Diane Paul, Human Rights Watch
April 8, 1999

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