February 28, 2008

The ICC issue delays peace in N. Uganda (Again!)

In recent days the 1.5 million people of northern Uganda have come so close to getting their extremely harmful 22-year civil war resolved... But now, the perennially disruptive issue of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:43 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 23, 2008

Uganda very close to peace with the LRA?

AFP is reporting from Kampala that the Ugandan government has signed a permanent ceasefire agreement with the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). This is apparently not the total final peace agreement,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:55 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

May 15, 2007

Let's put Jonathan over the top!

Jonathan Edelstein, the ever-wise author of the "Head Heeb" blog and a frequent commenter here, is making yet another contribution to human betterment in the days ahead... He and his...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:40 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

April 20, 2007

Peace, justice, and war-crimes courts: the view after Iraq

This morning I was invigilating the exam my students were taking here in Lille, at the end of the short course I've been teaching here on Transitional Justice and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:01 PM | Fulltext link (31 comments)

March 12, 2007

What do we mean by 'Justice' and 'Accountability'?

(This post has been cross-posted at 'Transitional Justice Forum') Two of the key watchwords used by people who argue for war-crimes prosecutions in the aftermath of atrocity are the need...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:32 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

January 07, 2007

Dave Zarembka on "Healing from slavery, war, and genocide"

David Zarembka is the coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams. He has been involved with peace work in Africa since 1964. Recently, he...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:29 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

November 26, 2006

Kenyan survivors of British colonial brutality strike back

The London law firm of Leigh Day, working with six survivors of the extreme brutality used by the british colonial authorities in their attempt to crush the Mau Mau insurgency...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:31 PM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

October 27, 2006

Sins of the predecessors

Should the largely pauperized population of today's Iraq be held responsible for making 'reparation' payments to people and institutions in Kuwait and elsewhere that were damaged by Saddam Hussein's August...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:26 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

February 09, 2006

Saddam trial discussed at Transitional Justice Forum blog

Christopher Le Mon has a good new post about the Saddam Hussein trial over at the Transitional Justice Forum blog. In it, he reviews the recent developments in the trial...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:00 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 30, 2005

Reconciliation issues-- Australia and East Timor

I've been doing some online research, namely, checking out what I've been getting from the two daily "Google news alerts" I signed up for recently using the search terms "Saddam...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:21 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 07, 2005

New group blog on Transitional Justice

Ahem... I have an important announcement to make... Jonathan Edelstein, a South African social psychologist called Brandon Hamber, and I are launching a new group blog called Transitional Justice Forum....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:00 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

May 30, 2005

Conflict termination and "justice"

So, a couple of weeks ago I finished a decent draft of my book about transitional justice mechanisms and the success (or otherwise) of conflict-termination efforts in three countries in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:46 AM | Fulltext link (17 comments)

May 12, 2005

CSM column criticizes war-crimes courts

Here's the column I have in the CSM today. It's a quick out-take from what I've been writing about the past couple of weeks. It's about (guess what) the dysfunctionality...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:26 PM | Fulltext link (10 comments)

April 22, 2005

Former fighters work together in Lebanon

A really great article by Nora Bustany in the April 22 WaPo about a group of Lebanese former fighters working together to promote reconciliation. They were brought together by Initiatives...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:56 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

April 18, 2005

Uganda: healing or judging?

This is an extremely informative and inspiring article in today's NYT about the use of traditional healing ceremonies to reconcile conflict-torn communities in northern Uganda. Reporter Marc Lacey reports from...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:46 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 06, 2005

Rwanda and prosecutorialism

So I did largely succeed in getting done, over this past week, what I needed to do on my violence-in-Africa book. Namely, I "uploaded" back into the relevant portions of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:10 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

February 23, 2005

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...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:49 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 16, 2005

Notes on the development of transitional justice

I have just done a quick revision of the portion of the book chapter that I "junked" last week that deals with the development of the "transitional justice" field since...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:08 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

February 08, 2005

More on truth commissions

Jonathan and I are having a pretty interesting discussion down here on the topic of "what makes a 'truth' commission?" Stop on by, everybody, and share your views, too. I've...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:53 PM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

Thinking about Rwanda with Harvey Weinstein

I don't know how many of you recall the three posts (1, 2, and 3) I put up in mid-January in which I wrote about Eric Stover and Harvey Weinstein's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:33 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

January 30, 2005

UNU conference on Transitional Justice

Time was, there was a nearly wall-to-wall constituency among western human-rights advocates and other liberals for the viewpoint that any country transitioning into democracy or out of massiveoy violent...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:47 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)