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In the twentieth century, Geoffrey Robertson said in his book Crimes against Humanity, international law became accepted in the international community.1 The twenty-first century, he suggested, will be the century of its enforcement. Among the political and judicial advocates who fight for the development of international law, many are driven by a passion to ensure that respect for national sovereignty should not prevent the prosecution of political and military leaders who are guilty of war crimes or of crimes against humanity, especially genocide.
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Geoffrey Robertson, Crimes against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (London: Penguin Books, 2002).
Raimond Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice (New York: Routledge, 2000).
Raimond Gaita, Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2004) and Gaita, A Common Humanity.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press, 1963), pp. 268–99.
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Gaita, R. (2005). Refocusing Genocide: A Philosophical Responsibility. In: Roth, J.K. (eds) Genocide and Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554832_13
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