International Crimes and Other Gross Human Rights Violations: A Multi- and Interdisciplinary Textbook

International crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as other gross human rights violations are manifestations of collective violence which endanger international peace and security. and warrant our full attention. It however takes a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to understand the true nature and causes of this type of criminality. The aim of this book is to take such an approach and to provide university students, scholars, professionals and practitioners within the field with the knowledge they need. The legal background and particularities of international crimes; the social context in which these crimes are committed as well as the perpetrators and bystanders thereof are studied. Within the book many case studies are presented as illustrations.

Alette Smeulers, Ph.D (2003) in Law, Maastricht University is Director of the Amsterdam Centre of Interdisciplinary Study of International Crimes and Security at VU University Amsterdam. She recently published and edited volume Collective Violence and International Criminal justice (Intersentia 2010).
Fred Grünfeld, Ph. D (1991), Maastricht, is Professor in the Causes of Gross Human Rights Violations and in International Relations at the Universities of Utrecht and Maastricht at the Centre of Conflict Studies in Humanities and the Centre for Human Rights in Law Faculties plus at the University College Maastricht. In 2007 he published The failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in this International and Comparative Criminal Law Series of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.