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1. Yasukuni Shrine heats up Tokyo-Seoul tensions: ... almighty imperial power venerate this place where the souls of the dead warriors rest, even though it was created as a symbol of reconciliation at the end of the 19th century. © Pierre Hazan When ...
2. Week in Review (from 17 to 22/09/2018): ... ditorial advisor Pierre Hazan, is not to eradicate the past but to learn from it. But he thinks the Swiss compromise cannot necessarily be applied elsewhere, because “finding a balance between remembrance ...
3. Revising the past: A Swiss response to a global debate: To what extent should we take down statues, change the names of streets, towns and mountains when they bear the names of people who contributed to human misery? The spectacular removal in Charlottesville, ...
4. Week in Review: Tunisian trial and questions on UN judge selection: ... is not a universal and infallible recipe, as pointed out by JusticeInfo editorial advisor Pierre Hazan, who questions the way the United Nations selects its judges. “International criminal justice put ...
5. UN schizophrenia and the choice of international judges: International criminal justice puts forward the idea of universal, detached justice delivered by judges who are themselves completely independent and impartial because they are not part of the reality ...
6. Swiss judge delivers harsh criticism of Lebanon Tribunal: Robert Roth, professor of law at the University of Geneva and former judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has for the first time explained why he resigned from that court in September 2013. He points ...
7. Week in Review: The importance of remembrance: ... given a home to the Streetlights of Memory, because, like every tragedy, the Armenian one needs to be remembered,” writes JusticeInfo’s editorial advisor Pierre Hazan. “This is all the more necessary because ...
8. An Armenian genocide memorial in Geneva to shine light on past and present: After long years the “Streetlights of Memory”, a work by French artist Melik Ohanian, found a home in Geneva on April 13. It first needed the Geneva parliament in 1998 and then the Swiss parliament in ...
9. Long-delayed, disputed Armenian memorial unveiled in Geneva: ... in another life) said that the installation was not just a reminder of past disaster; “it’s a monument that says that this must never happen again”, he said. + Pierre Hazan on the transience, but importance, ...
10. Mali should have helped fund rebuilding of Timbuktu heritage, says local archaeologist: ... n with architects, local masons descendants of the Saints and members of civil society. Pierre Hazan talked to him for JusticeInfo. JusticeInfo.net: What do you think was irreversibly lost or destroy ...
11. Week in Review: Philippines to quit the ICC, while populism undermines the West: ... on the ICC, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose country’s withdrawal from the Court became effective at the end of 2017, now has someone following in his path. His equally controversial counterpart ...
12. Democratic recession and transitional justice: In an article that made an impact, American political sociologist Larry Diamond says that since 2006 we have been living through a “democratic recession”. The events of the past few weeks prove him right. ...
13. Week in Review: Reconciliation as the key to a successful transition: ... advisor Pierre Hazan. “The continuum between political and criminal violence is insufficiently explored,” he writes. “It is as though a society suddenly changes when peace has been agreed, but a society ...
14. How political violence can become criminal violence: According to the Gallup survey institute, the five most dangerous countries in the world in 2017 were Venezuela, South Africa, El Salvador, South Sudan and Liberia. With the exception of Venezuela, they ...
15. Week in Review: Amnesia in Poland, violence in Venezuela and the Philippines: ... identity,” writes JusticeInfo editorial advisor Pierre Hazan. “ Poland’s parliamentary majority is playing to nationalist sentiments.” Writing for JusticeInfo.net, transitional justice expert Tomasz ...
16. Poland tries to rewrite Holocaust history: After putting pressure on the judicial system and the media, Poland’s authorities are now clamping down on how the country’s Second World War history is told. This authoritarian trend is worrying the European ...
17. Week in Review: Testing times for TJ from Kosovo to Burundi: ... 1998 -2000, explains Pierre Hazan. That is not surprising given that former UCK commanders including President Hashim Thaçi and his Prime Minister are now in power in Pristina. The Serbs, who feel they ...
18. Will contested Kosovo tribunal ever get off the ground?: Is the Kosovo war crimes tribunal dead before it even begins? Parliamentarians close to the country’s President and Prime Minister are trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Switzerland has granted it funding ...
19. Iraq: “Saving manuscripts is also saving people”: What is the point of saving culture if you can’t save people? That seems a derisory question in the spiral of violence hitting Iraq and Syria for years. But not for Father Najeeb. He has managed to save ...
20. As Yugoslav tribunal closes, a look back at its history: In his last speech to the UN Security Council on December 6, 2017, ICTY President Carmel Agius expressed satisfaction that out of 161 persons indicted, all have been tried or have died, representing a ...