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Through an in-depth case study, 'Some Kind of Justice' offers fresh insights about two questions now the subject of robust debate: What goals can we plausibly assign to international criminal tribunals? What factors determine the impact of distant courts on societies that have seen vicious violence? The volume offers a timely and original account of how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) affected local communities, and the factors that shape its changing impact over time.

War crime trials --- International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. --- Trials (War crimes) --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- International Tribunal to Adjudicate War Crimes Committed in the Former Yugoslavia --- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia --- International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia --- Tribunal pénal international pour l'Ex-Yougoslavie --- ICTY --- TPIY --- Tribunal international chargé de poursuivre les personnes présumées responsables de violations graves du droit international humanitaire commises sur le territoire de l'ex-Yougoslavie depuis 1991 --- Međunarodni trubunal za suđenje licima odgovornim za teške povrede međunarodnog humanitarnog prava na teritoriji bivše Jugoslavije od 1991. godine --- Haški tribunal --- United Nations. --- Hague Tribunal --- Internationaler Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag --- Haiya shen pan --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ tribunal po byvsheĭ I︠U︡goslavii --- MTBI︠U︡ --- Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals

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Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens. Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become an idolatry. In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years. Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, comments by four leading scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--and a response by Ignatieff.

Human rights. --- Political science -- Philosophy. --- World politics.

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