Accounting for Atrocities the international conference Accounting for Atrocities: Prosecuting War Crimes 50 Years After Nuremberg was organized by Peter Maguire and held at Bard October 5-6, 1998. The conference brought together leaders from the fields of history, human rights, international law, and the law of war as well as leaders of international humanitarian organizations to address the persistent occurrence of genocide and the means and limitations to control' it. Website

Bard Prison Initiative BPI is restoring higher-education to the prisons of New York. For over twenty years, college-in-prison programs slashed rates of reincarceration from 60% to less than 15%. They spread higher-education among the most isolated communities and were the most cost-effective form of public correctional spending. Despite this, funding for prison colleges was eliminated in 1995, at the peak of the ‘tough on crime’ frenzy in American electoral politics. Within that year some 350 such programs closed nationwide, ending the most affordable and transformative programs in American criminal justice. Website: http://www.bard.edu/bpi For more information download this file: bpi.jpg Contact: Max Kenner Phone: 845 758 6822 x6847 E-mail: bpi@bard.edu Website

Bhopal Memory Project An initiative to raise awareness of the issues surrounding the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India. India's recent attempts to extradite the former chairman of Union Carbide in order to face criminal charges have highlighted the need for a discussion about international free trade as it relates to national civil and criminal laws, how courts determine accountability for criminal acts, and the role of extradition treaties as a means of ensuring accountability in an increasingly globalized economy. Website: http://www.bard.edu/bhopal For more information download this file: bohpal.jpg Contact: Bridget Hanna Phone: 845 758 7110 E-mail: bhanna@bard.edu Website

Guatemala: OAS Election Observation Mission In November of 2003, Guatemalans voted for a new president. Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator of Guatemala, was in the running. Eight Bard students and seven faculty and staff joined the OAS election-monitoring mission in Guatemala City. Read about some of their experiences and see some photos from the trip. Website

Human Rights Radio

International Human Rights Exchange An intensive 4-5 week summer interdisciplinary human rights course that brings together students from Bard College, Bryn Mawr, Morehouse, Oberlin, Spelman and Trinity with South African students from the University of Cape Town, University of Witwatersrand, University of Western Cape, University of Natal, University of Durbin-Westville, and the University of Zimbabwe. Website

International Justice Watch International Justice Watch is an on-line forum for the exchange of news and opinions on the work of the international war crimes tribunals for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as on related issues including the conflicts which gave rise to the tribunals, the project to establish an International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes), and other contemporary armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies. This list is moderated by Thomas Keenan and Andras Riedelmayer. Website

Migrant Labor Project MLP is a student-based organization working to improve the conditions of migrant laborers and their families in New York State, particularly the Hudson Valley, through community and campus education, direct service, research, and advocacy work. MLP also works with a coalition of organizations involved in the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign, which advances farmworker rights through a legislative agenda. Website

Music and Torture Project Recent reports from journalists and human rights advocates have drawn attention to the use of music as a technique of interrogation and punishment by US military and intelligence agencies. While music has been traditionally associated with pleasure, beauty and enjoyment, these reports call on us to rethink many received ideas about both music and the infliction of pain. Despite widespread condemnation of these practices, many fundamental questions about the relationship between music and torture remain unasked and unanswered. 1. Click below for a summary of the conference and a program:

Slobodan Milosevic Trial Public Archive Since February 2002, together with the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Project has created a complete on-line video archive, and a broadcast quality digital-videotape archive, of the proceedings of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Website

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