From Nuremberg to Bosnia: War Crimes Trials in the Modern Era Jeremy Colwill discusses the Hague Intemational Tribunal that was established by the U.N. in 1993 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in the former Yugoslavia. To date, investigations have resulted in the leveling of charges against 22 ethnic Serbs. According […]
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Public Health in the 1990s: In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism, Vol. 22: 4, 1995
Edited by Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould Public Health in the 1990s is an excellent compendium of some of the most important global public health issues that we currently face, including violence, occupational and environmental health, women’s health, AIDS, health care delivery, landmines, chemical and nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste cleanup. Among the contributions are […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]