From Nuremberg to Kigali: on the necessity and impossibility of post-atrocity justice
TitreFrom Nuremberg to Kigali: on the necessity and impossibility of post-atrocity justice
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0048
N° d'objet08667i
Lieu de publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
Année de publication
2012
Paginationpp190-210
MatérielArticle
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
