International Crime and Human Rights

Course Description

This seminar addresses international crime and human rights through a comparative lens.  In particular, students explore the role of “war crimes” tribunals in punishing international war criminals.  We also examine how international crime is dealt with through truth commissions, peace meetings, and other alternative forms of resolving disputes.  The advantages and disadvantages of the various ways to resolve international crime are evaluated.  Finally, the seminar focuses its attention on international human rights in the context of gender, language, and race/ ethnicity.  We address how violations of these human rights are managed by the international human rights regime, or system.