Is global justice desirable and attainable?

Newsblaze (California),StreetInsider.com (Michigan)

November 9, 2007

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Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transnational Justice is an in-depth analysis examining how societies and the international community respond to political change after facing grave violations of human rights - and the means they use to hold perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable.

"Transnational justice issues are no longer solely the preserve of individual countries and decades of inaction has been followed by an increasingly robust international commitment to ensure accountability for atrocities. Today no leader anywhere in the world can be confident of lifelong sovereign impunity for mass murder of his own people" Ramesh Thakur, Distinguished Fellow at CIGI and …

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