From Nuremberg to Kigali: on the necessity and impossibility of post-atrocity justice
TitleFrom Nuremberg to Kigali: on the necessity and impossibility of post-atrocity justice
Author
Call number940.5318/0048
Object number08667i
Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Year of publication
2012
Physical descriptionpp190-210
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780810128620
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies X: back to the sources: reexamining perpetrators, victims, and bystanders pp190-210
Description
Hebert considers the Nuremberg trials as establishing a paradigm for dealing judicially with genocide and other atrocities. Evaluates the goals of such legal proceedings in the Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial and the Rwanda 'Gacaca'. Examines the social and psychological consequences of such trials, questioning the central assumption that recounting and hearing the truth about genocide and atrocity have a redemptive effect
