All the missing souls : a personal history of the war crimes tribunals / David Scheffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheffer, David.

Series:

Human rights and crimes against humanity.

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

International criminal courts--History--20th century.

International criminal courts.

United States--Foreign relations--1993-2001.

United States.

United States. Department of State--Officials and employees--Biography.

Scheffer, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (565 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Within 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 "Sandy" 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.

Contents:

Introduction : ambassador to hell

An echo of Nuremberg

It's genocide, stupid

Credible justice for Rwanda

Abandoned at Srebrenica

The pastor from Mugonero

Unbearable timidity

The siren of exceptionalism

Futile endgame

Rome's aftermath

Crime scene Kosovo

Freetown is burning

The toughest cockfight

No turning back

Postscript on law, crimes, and impunity

Comparison of modern war crimes tribunals.

Human rights and crimes against humanity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613339768

9781283339766

1283339765

9781400839483

1400839483

OCLC:

767502422