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My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity

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Tackling the crucial issue of our day--the rebuilding of countries following ethnic cleansing and genocide, this book evaluates the role of trials and tribunals with regard to social reconstruction and reconciliation. The voices of the people of Rwanda and Yugoslavia are heard through the results of extensive surveys and recorded conversations. Their thoughts of past and future controversially conclude that international and local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. The contributors find that communities interpret justice far more broadly than defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. An ecological model of social reconstruction is proposed, suggesting that coordinated multi-systematic strategies must be implemented if social repair is to occur. Finally, the contributors suggest that, while trials are essential to combat impunity and punish the guilty, their strengths and limitations must be acknowledged. Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights until December 1995. He has served on several investigations as an Expert on Mission to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. He is author of The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar , War Crimes in the Balkans: Medicine Under Siege in the former Yugoslavia 1991-1995 , Landmines: A Deadly Legacy and co-author of Witnesses from the Grave and The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions Harvey M. Weinstein is Clinical Professor in the Joint Medical Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done research in and taught health and human rights, refugee health and mass violence and social reconstruction. Weinstein is a member of the Advisory Council of the State Refugee Health Program, and the International Human Rights Committee and the Caucus on Refugees and Immigrants of the American Public Health Association.

Language: English

Pages: 372

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: December 02, 2004

ISBN: 0521542642

ISBN 13: 9780521542647

My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Tackling the crucial issue of our day--the rebuilding of countries following ethnic cleansing and genocide, this book evaluates the role of trials and tribunals with regard to social reconstruction and reconciliation. The voices of the people of Rwanda and Yugoslavia are heard through the results of extensive surveys and recorded conversations. Their thoughts of past and future controversially conclude that international and local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. The contributors find that communities interpret justice far more broadly than defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. An ecological model of social reconstruction is proposed, suggesting that coordinated multi-systematic strategies must be implemented if social repair is to occur. Finally, the contributors suggest that, while trials are essential to combat impunity and punish the guilty, their strengths and limitations must be acknowledged. Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights until December 1995. He has served on several investigations as an Expert on Mission to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. He is author of The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar , War Crimes in the Balkans: Medicine Under Siege in the former Yugoslavia 1991-1995 , Landmines: A Deadly Legacy and co-author of Witnesses from the Grave and The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions Harvey M. Weinstein is Clinical Professor in the Joint Medical Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done research in and taught health and human rights, refugee health and mass violence and social reconstruction. Weinstein is a member of the Advisory Council of the State Refugee Health Program, and the International Human Rights Committee and the Caucus on Refugees and Immigrants of the American Public Health Association.

Language: English

Pages: 372

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: December 02, 2004

ISBN: 0521542642

ISBN 13: 9780521542647

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