Is International Justice the Enemy of Peace?
Whenever sitting heads of state are accused of war crimes, critics cry out that criminal charges will obstruct the search for peace. But, in case after case - from Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic to Charles Taylor - they have been wrong, and they may be wrong again in the case of Sudanese Preseident Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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It is only a little more than fifteen years ago that the first of the contemporary international courts was created to prosecute those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. That court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, may soon mete out justice to a new defendant, following the arrest in Belgrade of Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of Bosnia’s Serbs.