All the Missing Souls (eBook)

A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

David Scheffer (Autor)

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2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3948-3 (ISBN)

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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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The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin 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 "e;Sandy"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Zusatzinfo: 35 halftones. 1 table. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: acquittal • Aftermath of World War II • Antonio Cassese • A Problem from Hell • Arrest warrant • Bill Clinton • Book • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Cambodia • Carla Del Ponte • civilian • Combatant • Consideration • Crime of Aggression • Customary international law • David Scheffer • de facto • defendant • Due Process • Elizaphan Ntakirutimana • ethnic cleansing • Extradition • foreign policy • fugitive • Geneva Conventions • hostage • Human Rights Watch • Hun Sen • Imprisonment • impunity • indictment • Insurgency • Interahamwe • International Committee of the Red Cross • International Community • International Court of Justice • International Criminal Court • international criminal law • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda • International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia • International Humanitarian Law • International human rights law • International Law • International Military Tribunal for the Far East • John Shattuck • Jurisdiction • Khmer Rouge • Kigali • Kofi Annan • law of war • lawyer • Legislation • Madeleine Albright • Member State • military occupation • Nazi Germany • Nuremberg • Nuremberg Trials • Peacekeeping • Persecution • Phnom Penh • Pol Pot • Precedent • Presidential Statement • Princeton University Press • Prosecutor • Radovan Karadžic • ratification • Ratko Mladic • Richard Goldstone • Richard Holbrooke • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court • Rwanda • Rwandan Genocide • Serbs • SFOR • Sierra Leone • socialist federal republic of yugoslavia • Special court • Special Court for Sierra Leone • Srebrenica • Statute • supermajority • terrorism • The New York Times • Torture • Treaty • Tribunal • Tutsi • United Nations • United Nations Convention against Torture • United Nations Security Council • United States • United States Department of State • war • War Crime • warfare • Warren Christopher • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3948-3 / 1400839483
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3948-3 / 9781400839483