Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack talked to reporters at the State Department about the U.S. decision to accuse Russia of committing war crimes as it invaded Ukraine in 2022. She…
417 viewsViewers responded to the question “How should the U.S. and NATO respond to Russian atrocities?”
374 viewsMichael Newton, a Vanderbilt University Law professor and war crimes expert, talked about the process of prosecuting war crimes in the International Criminal Court.
388 viewsPeter Maguire talked about the legacy of the Nuremberg trials and described how, in the 1950s, the Germans questioned the validity of the sentences, which often resulted in pardons or paroles. Gerhard Weinberg…
1,760 viewsCo-authors Alexa Koenig, Victor Peskin, and Eric Stover talked about their book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror.
238 viewsSarah Sewall spoke on atrocity prevention and other global issues. She focused on the Obama administration-led Atrocities Prevention Board and its progress during the preceding three years…
282 viewsPaul Finkelman talked about the military trial of Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of Andersonville Prison, where approximately 13,000 Union prisoners died. The concept of war crimes was established as a…
1,737 viewsFlagler College Political Science Professor Arthur Vanden Houten and Flagler College History Professor John Young taught a class on the the Rwandan genocide and the response by the U.S. and the United Nations. The…
1,693 viewsThe United Nations Security Council met to discuss the situation in Syria and ongoing humanitarian efforts. The previous day U.N. investigators released their report that found both the Syrian…
1,381 viewsIris Chang talked about her book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, published by Basic Books. The book documents the atrocities visited upon the people of Nanking by…
19,165 viewsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Hamas using their civilians as human shields. This is a brief portion of his remote interview on CBS' “Face the Nation.”
452 viewsAmbassador Stephen Rapp talked about war crimes and crimes against humanity that have occurred during the civil war in Syria. Topics included the use of chemical weapons and shrapnel bombs…
443 viewsJohn Park, Harvard Kennedy School adjunct lecturer, talked by video link from West Newton, Massachusetts, about a United Nations report on North Korea that accused leader Kim Jong Un of “crimes…
602 viewsSenator John McCain (R-AZ),a member of the Armed Services Committee, came to the floor to urge his colleagues to take action on the situation in Syria. He showed several graphic photographs…
1,019 viewsAndrew Ward talked about his book River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, published by Viking. The book detailed the capture of the Union garrison at Fort Pillow, Tenn., by Nathan…
1,227 viewsShin Dong-hyuk was interviewed by Christian Caryl about his life in a North Korean internment camp, where he was born. He talked about the abuse of prisoners in the camp, including denial of food, and how he and the…
1,041 viewsDavid Scheffer, author of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, and Julia Lieblich, co-author of Wounded I More Awake: Finding Meaning After Terror, talked about…
321 viewsMs. Power talked about her book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, published by Basic Books. The books criticizes the U.S. failure to stop genocide such as occurred in…
2,335 viewsPanelists discussed war crimes tribunals, both past and present, and if the legal infrastructure the world’s leading democracies have struggled to establish since the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46 is…
666 viewsHistorian Gerald Steinacher reported on the many Nazi war criminals that avoided capture following the end of World War II. The author examined the routes or ‘ratlines’ that were used for…
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