1st Edition

The Kosovo Tragedy The Human Rights Dimensions

Edited By Ken Booth Copyright 2001
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    The 1999 conflict in Kosovo is seen as being as significant for international affairs as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall, because of the centrality of human rights in the build-up, conduct and aftermath of the war. This volume is an attempt to explore this human rights tragedy.

    Perspectives - ethnic cleansing, Carrie Booth Walling; genocide, Daniela Kroslak, Tim Dunne; mass rape in war, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Penny Stanley; prologue -implementation lessons from Bosnia, Marianne Hanson; Osce verification experiences in Kosovo, William Walker; human rights abuses in Kosovo, Alex Bellamy; war - NATO policy - issues of legality and legitimacy, Nicholas J. Wheeler; the rights of refugees and the responsibilities of others, Jim Whitman; international humanitarian war and the Kosovo operations, Hilaire McCoubrey; war crimes, Marc Weller; aftermath - the human rights dimensions of the Kosovo Accords, Eric Herring; can human rights be secured? the problems of post-conflict implementation, Ian Mitchell; human rights from the bottom up, Jasmina Husanovic; forum -is humanitarian war a contradiction in terms? Tarak Barkaun et al.

    Biography

    Adrian Aooth

    'An engaging collection ... provides an important set of perspectives of how human rights language and norms were used in the course of the Kosovo interventionm and its immediate aftermath.' - International Affairs

    'Booth is to be congratulated for having brought together representatives of both the pro and anti-war camps in what is a remarkably non-sectarian volume.' - Red Pepper