At the end of August prosecutors from international tribunals such as those in Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and the Fmr. Yugoslavia met in Jamestown, NY for the 2010 International Humanitarian Law Dialogues. The discussion this year focused on the June review conference of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda. The conference has been long […]
Author Archives: Benjamin B. Ferencz and Richard J. Goldstone
Benjamin B. Ferencz is a veteran of WWII who was also a Chief prosecutor in the 1945 Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. He has been consulting the International. He has been active in fighting for the establishment of the International Criminal Court and is the author of many books, among them Defining International Aggression-The Search for World Peace.
Richard J. Goldstone is a retired South African supreme court judge. He was also the chief prosecutor in the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. Most recently, Judge Goldstone headed the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict and authored alongside Christine Chinkin, Hina Jilani, and Colonel Desmond Travers the mission's report, also referred to as the Goldstone Report.