Irenees
a website of resources for peace

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  • Promotion de la justice et application des accords de paix

    Les mécanismes alternatifs de résolution des conflits apportent des solutions qui complètent le travail des Etats en matière de justice et enrichissent les perspectives de construction de la paix. Au niveau international, des mécanismes juridiques se développent pour assurer le respect du droit international humanitaire.

    Mathieu Routier, Paris, March 2009

  • Unfinished Business - Serbia War Crimes Chamber

    The armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s were marked by extensive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. To ensure some measure of accountability for the widespread killings, rapes, destruction of property, and massive displacement of people, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

    Paris, November 2007

  • Weighing the Eviden Lessons from the Slobodan Milosevic Trial

    Although Milosevic’s death—and the absence of a verdict—denied the victims a final judgment, this should not diminish the trial’s other accomplishments. As the first former president brought before an international criminal tribunal, the trial of Milosevic marked the end of the era when being a head of state meant immunity from prosecution

    Paris, November 2007

  • Wich future for Balkans?

    BY 1992 the Yugoslav Federation was falling apart. Nationalism had once again replaced communism as the dominant force in the Balkans. Slovenia and then Croatia were the first to break away but only at the cost of renewed conflict with Serbia.

    Paris, October 2007