Pierre Hazan

Oped contributor

Since June 2015, Pierre Hazan is the editorial advisor of JusticeInfo.net. He is also a Special Advisor in Transitional Justice with the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), a Lecturer at the Geneva University of Art and Design and a Professor at the Academy of Journalism and Media at the University of Neuchâtel. In the past years, he worked with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A former diplomatic correspondent specialized in international justice and humanitarian action for the daily newspapers Libération (Paris) and Le Temps (Geneva), Pierre Hazan has been an attentive observer of many conflicts (former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, the Middle East, etc.). ). Associate researcher at Harvard Law School (2005), then at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington (2006), he has published numerous books, including La justice face à la guerre (Stock, 2000), Juger la guerre, juger l’histoire (PUF, 2007), La paix contre la justice ? (AVE/GRIP 2010).

Radovan Karadzic and the Cruel Reflection on Europe

Twenty-four years ago, torn by different nationalist tendencies, Bosnia-Herzegovina plunged on April 6, 1992 into a sea of blood and violence.  Sarajevo endured a terrible 44-month siege in which 10,000 civilians died, including 1,500 children. “Ethnic cleansing” became a terrible banality in the heart of Europe, and thousands of civilians suffered in horrendous camps reminiscent […]
By Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo Editorial Advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
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