But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of ‘not...

At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past may ultimately depend on elements so basic that they bring to mind a simple Slav...

In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have...

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on ‘forgetting’ appears to have a limited lifespan.

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen’s inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the ‘grey zone’ of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher...