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Other Activities in International Justice

In addition to its work in the field of international justice, the Center often conducts conferences and other activities that touch on matters of human rights and social justice, and reflect on the steps that international judiciaries have taken.

In November 2004, the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda hosted a meeting of prosecutors of international criminal tribunals in Arusha, Tanzania. Leigh Swigart, director of program in international justice and society, served as an observer at the meeting, dubbed the Prosecutors Colloquium. The Center edited the subsequent report, "The Challenges of International Justice," which documents the proceedings of that meeting.

"Telling the Story," a two-day conference held in September 2005, examined the process by which human rights violations are documented and the reasons they are made public. The conference brought together practitioners who produce or use documentation of violations – such as journalists, filmmakers, artists, human rights reporters, forensic specialists, and legal practitioners – with scholars who approach it from theoretical perspectives, such as legal scholars, women's studies scholars and anthropologists.

In March 2004, the Center hosted a one-day conference called "Justice Across Cultures," which explored a variety of issues that arise when systems of justice encounter cultural difference. Participating scholars explored a general set of questions through the examination of particular historical and geopolitical cases.

Two months after the release of the report by the Independent International Commission on Kosovo in October 2000, the Center convened a roundtable discussion titled "Intervention and Prevention: The Lessons of Kosovo." The report examined key developments prior to, during and after the Kosovo war, including systematic violations of human rights in the region. At the roundtable discussion at Brandeis, members of the Commission joined scholars, journalists, diplomats and activists to discuss the 1999 war and its implications for the future.