Aftermath: institutional responses to displaced persons and refugees after 1945

Discusses the history and organization of two international organizations - UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration)
and UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission). Refugee camps under UNRRA were infused with the principle of self-government offering a potent antidote to the powerlessness that had marked the lives of their inhabitants. Similarly, the UNWCC's example of an "international legal response to human rights abuses" confirms the proper role of the individual as opposed to platitudes of stateman