Peace, justice a ‘tug-of-war’
Speaking at the Yale Law School on Monday, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights called upon the international community to break the link between peace and justice.
In front of approximately 120 law students and faculty members, Louise Arbour reflected on what she described as the “ongoing tug-of-war” between the relative importance of peace and justice in international law. Arbour — also the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda — weighed the pros and cons of two potential frameworks for structuring the...
