International atrocities law
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... I did a quick edit on the other half of my recently junked (sob!) Chapter 11... So this is a piece titled "Notes on the development of international atrocities law since 1850". It's a companion piece to the "Notes on transitional justice" that I put up on the JWN archives last week .
In the conception of Chapter 11 that I was working with when I wrote those two segments, the present piece preceded the one on "transitional justice". I wrote both of them with reference to the rest of the book, which focuses on three conflict-exiting countries in Africa: Mozambique, South Africa, and Rwanda.
But I think that each of these short segments now stands alone okay, and I hope they provide a useful introduction to some of the issues involved.
Comments, anyone?