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Ignatieff, M. (1998). The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (Reprint edition). Holt Paperbacks.

Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the rise of the new moral interventionists--the relief workers, reporters, delegates, and diplomats who believe that other people's misery is of concern to us all. And he brings us face-to-face with the new...

Vidal-Naquet, P. (1998). Mémoires, tome 2: Le Trouble et la Lumière. SEUIL.

Le premier tome de ces Mémoires esquissait le portrait d’une enfance, d’une jeunesse dominée par la disparition à Auschwitz des parents, Margot et Lucien.Ce second volume raconte la vie d’un homme pleinement engagé dans ses travaux universitaires et dans l’actualité de son temps et de ses conflits.Voici le récit d’une quête acharnée et quotidienne de la clarté, d’une volonté permanente de chercher et de dire la vérité et la justice dans un monde trouble et confus. On verra ainsi défiler...

Brazil Archdiocese of São Paulo. (1998). Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo (J. Dassin, Ed.; J. Wright, Trans.). University of Texas Press.

Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookFrom 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985.The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court...

Redaccion, E. E. de. (1998). Guatemala Nunca Mas. Oficina de Derechos Humanos.

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Adam, D. (1998). The Tuol Sleng Archives and the Cambodian Genocide. Archivaria, 45, 5–26.

The purposes of this paper are, first of all, to describe how the Khmer Rouge documented the genocide they committed against their fellow Cambodians, with particular emphasis on the records created, used, and stored at the Tuol Sleng Incarceration Centre; secondly, to describe the bureaucracy the Khmer Rouge created that supported their documentation activities; thirdly, to suggest some reasons why they documented their activities so extensively; and finally, to describe the disposition of...

Conan, E. (1998). Le Procès Papon, un journal d’audience. Gallimard.

Avant même l'ouverture du procès, la cause semble entendue : Maurice Papon, secrétaire général de la préfecture de la Gironde sous l'Occupation, est coupable. Mais, au fil des audiences, il devient bientôt clair que l'instruction, en quatorze ans, a été pour le moins mal faite ; que l'Histoire, celle des historiens cités à comparaître, est plus nuancée dans ses analyses des chaînes de responsabilité administrative ; que les témoignages des grands acteurs témoins de la Résistance divergent...

Tutu, D. (1996). The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution (Reprint edition). Image.

The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, Tutu's words and presence helped shape events and led South Africa toward justice and freedom. This astonishing tapestry of narrative is not only a valuable historical document of those significant events, but it also...

Hobsbawm, E. (1996). The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (Illustrated edition). Vintage.

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a...

Kukutz, I., Krone, T., & Leide, H. (1996). Wenn wir unsere Akten lesen: Handbuch zum Umgang mit den Stasi-Unterlagen (2., veränd. u. erw. edition). BasisDruck.

Deletant, D. (1995). Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989. Routledge.

First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.

Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports. United States Institute of Peace.

Includes over 100 laws, regulations and decrees, constitutional provisions, judicial decisions, reports of official, commissions of inquiry, and treaty excerpts from 28 countries and from international organizations.

Hobbins, A. J. (1995). On the Edge of Greatness, Volume I: The Diaries of John Humphrey, First Director of the United Nations Human Rights Division, Volume I. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

The first of three projected volumes of Humphrey's diaries, Volume 1 (1948-49) covers the meetings in Geneva and Paris leading to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (of which Humphrey had prepared the first draft); the daily activities of the UN Secretariat in Lake Success, N.Y.; and his visit to Strasbourg for the first Council of Europe. Humphrey details his interactions with international officials such as Trygve Lie and Henri Laugier, national representatives,...

Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional justice: how emerging democracies reckon with former regimes. United States Institute of Peace Press.

Gauck, J. (1994). Dealing with a Stasi Past. Daedalus, 123(1), 277–284.

Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Revised ed. edition). University of Oklahoma Press.

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more...

Chad Ministère de la Justice. (1993). Les crimes et détournements de l’ex-président Habré et de ses complices: Rapport de la Commission d’enquête nationale, Ministère tchadien de la justice. L’Harmattan.

Les crimes et détournements de l'ex-président Habré et de ses complices (rapport).

Schneider, P. (1992). German Comedy: Scenes of Life after the Wall (P. Boehm & L. Hafrey, Trans.; 1st edition). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Lahann, B. (1992). Genosse Judas: Die zwei Leben des Ibrahim Bohme (G.

Massaloux, J.-P. (1989). La Regie de l’Enregistrement et des Domaines aux Xviiie et Xixe Siecles : Etude Historique. Librairie Droz.

Arns, C., & Paulo Evaristo, D. (1985). Brasil Nunca Mais - um Relato para a História - 5^a Edição. Vozes.