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International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access published online on April 2, 2009
International Journal of Transitional Justice, doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijp002
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International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation, Victor A. Peskin

David Tolbert

Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace and former Deputy Chief Prosecutor, ICTY.

E-mail: jdavidtolbert@hotmail.com

International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation, Victor A. Peskin. Cambridge University Press, June 2008, 294pp. ISBN: 9780521872300 – hardcover (£45)

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International courts and tribunals confront a difficult reality in actually carrying out their mandates of bringing to justice perpetrators of the most serious crimes known to mankind. While they are clothed with great formal legal authority, they must rely almost exclusively on the cooperation of states in order to conduct investigations, including obtaining access to witnesses and documents, and to make arrests. These states are, for the most part, governed either by regimes that are complicit with those crimes or by successor governments that may have little interest in seeing the crimes adjudicated, as such trials would undermine the national myths that have developed regarding the underlying conflict and potentially put the successor's own power at risk. Despite . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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