Since the Nuremberg trials of 1945–46, the world’s democracies have struggled to establish a legal infrastructure to hold accountable those responsible for genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Are the mechanisms they created up to the task today? Is justice finally being delivered to the perpetrators of wartime atrocities? What strategies will nations require to deal with a new generation of non-state violent extremists?
At a recent panel discussion at the Museum, distinguished leaders in the field of international justice explored these questions to assess whether a lasting system of accountability for the most serious crimes is finally coming into place.
This program was cosponsored by the Museum, the Aspen Institute’s Justice & Society Program, and the United States Institute of Peace and made possible in part by the generous support of the Helena Rubinstein Fund.
WATCH THE PANEL DISCUSSION
Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP and Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Lawyers Committee
Meryl Justin Chertoff
Director, Justice & Society Program, Aspen Institute
Michael Abramowitz (Moderator)
Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Harold Hongju Koh
Legal Adviser, US Department of State
David J. Scheffer
Former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues and author of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
Author of Justice and the Enemy: From the Nuremberg Trials to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Web page banner: Artifacts in the Museum’s collection from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Donated by Elizabeth Durkee, IBM Corporation, Sheila C. Johnson, Peter Klappert, Edward Vebell, and Mira Wallerstein. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, photo by Lisa Masson