The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9780714650852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 398 str.

Ken Booth

Opis

The conflict in Kosovo in 1999 has been described as being as significant for international affairs as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. This importance derives from the centrality of human rights in the build-up, conduct and aftermath of the war. This volume is an attempt to explore the tragedy from the perspective of human rights in all their dimensions. An international group of specialists debate key human issues: the experiences from Bosnia; the contentious concepts; the wrongs done to the victims; the manner of the fighting; the situation in Kosovo in 2000, and the lessons for humanitarian intervention.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Introduction: Still Waiting for the Reckoning, Ken Booth; Part 1 Perspectives; Chapter 1 Genocide: Knowing What It Is That We Want to Remember, or Forget, or Forgive, Dunne Tim, Kroslak Daniela; Chapter 2 The History and Politics of Ethnic Cleansing, Carrie Booth Walling; Chapter 3 Rape in War: Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts in the 1990s, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Penny Stanley; Part 2 Prologue; Chapter 4 Warnings From Bosnia: The Dayton Agreement and the Implementation of Human Rights, Marianne Hanson; Chapter 5 Human Wrongs in Kosovo: 1974–99, Alex J. Bellamy; Chapter 6 OSCE Verification Experiences in Kosovo: November 1998–June 1999, William G. Walker; Part 3 War; Chapter 7 Reflections on the Legality and Legitimacy of NATO's Intervention in Kosovo, Nicholas J. Wheeler; Chapter 8 The Kosovo Refugee Crisis: NATO's Humanitarianism versus Human Rights, Jim Whitman; Chapter 9 International Humanitarian Law and the Kosovo Crisis, Hilaire McCoubrey; Chapter 10 The Kosovo Indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Marc Weller; Part 4 Aftermath; Chapter 11 From Rambouillet to the Kosovo Accords: NATO's War against Serbia and Its Aftermath, Eric Herring; Chapter 12 The Ambiguities of Elections in Kosovo: Democratisation versus Human Rights?, Ian R. Mitchell; Chapter 13 ‘Post-Conflict’ Kosovo: An Anatomy Lesson in the Ethics/Politics of Human Rights, Jasmina Husanovi?; Part 5 Forum; Chapter 14 A Qualified Defence of the Use of Force for ‘Humanitarian’ Reasons, Chris Brown; Chapter 15 Can There be Such a Thing as a Just War?, Melanie McDonagh; Chapter 16 The 1999 Kosovo War through a South African Lens, John Stremlau; Chapter 17 No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished, Colin S. Gray; Chapter 18 Air Power and the Liberal Politics of War, Tarak Barkawi; Chapter 19 Ten Flaws of Just Wars, Ken Booth; Chapter 20 ‘Humanitarian Wars’, Realist Geopolitics and Genocidal Practices: ‘Saving the Kosovars’, Richard Falk; Part 6 Documents; Chapter 21 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Chapter 22 Resolution 1160 (1998); Chapter 23 Resolution 1199 (1998); Chapter 24 Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-government in Kosovo; Chapter 25 Proposal of the Parliament of Serbia for Self-governance in Kosovo and Metohija; Chapter 26 Military-Technical Agreement; Chapter 27 Resolution 1244 (1999); Notes on Contributors; Index;

O autorze

Adrian Aooth