There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that ….

In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lo….

Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are ….

We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer f….

When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is going to put the accu….

In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were actually standing in the way o….

The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefiel….

Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more abou….

We must sacrifice something in order to make the world better..

Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as ….

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs..

I hate the tribal hatred thesis - in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and places like that they kill each other because that's just what people do there. I thin….

Wounds simply won't heal if they are swept under the carpet..