A brief selection of links useful for further research.
- International Organisations
- Reports and articles
- Books | | International Organisations | | - AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
www.amnesty.org
|  | - Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. It investigates and exposes human rights violations, and holds abusers to account.
www.hrw.org
| | - The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved.
www.ictj.org
| | - No Peace Without Justice is an international non-profit organisation working for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice.
www.npwj.org
| | - The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by its direct involvement in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.
www.usip.org
| | - Trocaire is the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland . It was set up by the Irish Catholic Bishops in 1973 to express the concern of the Irish Church for the suffering of the world's poorest and most oppressed people. It has a presence in Rwanda , among other countries.
www.trocaire.org
| | - International Justice Tribune, the first online e-journal to cover international criminal justice, publishes investigative articles and interviews about worldwide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts.
www.justicetribune.com
| | | | | Reports and Articles | | - Making a case for universal jurisdiction in an age of truth commissions, Betty Murungi
www.tikenya.org - International Justice for Rwanda missing the point: Questioning the relevance of classical criminal law theory, Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto
 www.bond.edu.au - Truth Commissions: An uncertain path?, Victor Espinoza, Maria Luisa Ortiz Rojas, Paz Rojas Baeza
www.mnadvocates.org - Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Revisited: Achievements, Limitations, Challenges, Necla Tschirgi
www.ipacademy.org - Defining Transitional Justice
http://its.law.nyu.edu - Towards a Strategic Framework for Peacebuilding: Getting Their Act Together, overview report of the Joint Utstein Study of Peacebuilding
www.oecd.org - The Credibility Crisis of International Human Rights in the Arab World, Bahey El Din Hassan
http://cceia.org - The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic: The Demise of Head of State Immunity and the Specter of Victor's Justice, Scott Grosscup
www.heinonline.org - Accomplishments and limitations of one hybrid tribunal:experience at East Timor , Nicholas Koumjian
www.icc-cpi.int - Is Personal Freedom a Western Value? Thomas M.Franck
91 American Journal of International Law, 593-627 (1997) - The International Council on Human Rights Policy organization produced Negotiating Justice? Human Rights and Peace Agreements in early 2006. This report can be accessed through the ICHRP website (www.ichrp.org) and through the following direct link www.ichrp.org
| | Books | | - Geoffrey Robertson, Q.C.,
“Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice”,
Allen Lane , The Penguin Press - Samantha Power,
“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”,
Perennial - Philippe Sands,
“ America and the making and breaking of global rules”,
Allen Lane , The Penguin Press - Hugh O'Shaughnessy,
“Pinochet: The Politics of Torture”,
Latin American Bueau Edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff,
“Crimes of War: What the public must know”,
WWNorton and Company
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