Victims of international crimes : an interdisciplinary discourse / Thorsten Bonacker, Christoph Safferling, editors

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Victim-oriented perspectives : rights and realities / Theo van Boven -- On victims and non-victims : observations from Rwanda / Gerd Hankel -- The status of victims under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court / Michael J. Kelly -- The individualising and universalising discourse of law : victims in truth commissions and trials / Michael Humphrey -- Redressing sexual violence in transitional justice and the labelling of women as "victims" / Susanne Buckley-Zistel -- Everyone wanted to be victim : how victims of persecution disappear within a victimised nation / Brigitte Bailer-Galanda -- Transcending victimhood : child soldiers and restorative justice / Mark A. Drumbl -- The protection of victims in war crimes trials / Daniela Kravetz -- Victims as witnesses : views from the defence / Natalie von Wistinghausen --

Participation rights of victims as civil parties and the challenges of their implementation before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia / Silke Studzinsky -- The ICC’s practice on victim participation / Franziska C. Eckelmans -- Victims’ rights and peace / Hans-Peter Kaul -- Victims, excombatants and the communities : irreconcilable demands or a dangerous convergence? / Chandra Lekha Sriram -- Victims of genocide and crimes against humanity / Boris Barth -- Victims of civil war / Stefanie Bock -- Valorising victims’ ambivalences in contemporary trends in transitional justice / Thorsten Bonacker, Anika Oettler and Christoph Safferling -- A reflection on transitional justice in Guatemala 15 years after the peace agreements / Raquel Aldana -- The role and mandates of the ICC trust fund for victims / Katharina Peschke --

From victimhood to political protagonism : victim groups and associations in the process of dealing with a violent past / Veit Strassner -- The role of Cambodian civil society in the victim participation scheme of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia / Christoph Sperfeldt -- Critical memory studies and the politics of victimhood : reassessing the role of victimhood nationalism in Northern Ireland and South Africa / Marcel M. Baumann.