Reparations for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity : systems in place and systems in the making / edited by Carla Ferstman, Mariana Goetz, Alan Stephens.

"Draws upon a Conference organised by the Clemens Nathan Research Centre (CNRC) and REDRESS, which took place at the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands on 1-2 March 2007"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Victims' rights to a remedy and reparation : the new United Nations principles and guidelines / Theo van Boven -- Massive trauma and the healing role of reparative justice / Yael Danieli -- Reparation programmes : a gendered perspective / Anne Saris and Katherine Lofts -- The claims conference and the historic Jewish efforts for Holocaust-related compensation and restitution / Gideon Taylor, Greg Schneider and Saul Kagan -- The Swiss banks Holocaust settlement / Judah Gribetz and Shari C. Reig -- Overcoming evidentiary weaknesses in reparation claims programmes / Heike Niebergall -- International mass claims processes and the ICC trust fund for victims / Edda Kristjánsdóttir -- The United Nations compensation commission / Linda A. Taylor -- Bringing justice to victims? : responses of regional and international human rights courts and treaty bodies to mass violations / Lutz Oette -- The concepts of 'injured party' and 'victim' of gross human rights violations in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights : a commentary on their implications for reparations / Clara Sandoval-Villalba -- Reparation for gross violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law at the International Court of Justice / Conor McCarthy -- Reparations before the International Criminal Court : the early jurisprudence on victim participation and its impact on future reparations proceedings / Carla Ferstman and Mariana Goetz -- The prosecution of international crimes and the role of victims' lawyers / Luc Walleyn -- Compensation for the victims of chemical warfare in Iraq and Iran / Liesbeth Zegveld -- Reparations and victim participation : a look at the truth commission experience / Cristián Correa, Julie Guillerot and Lisa Magarrell -- The Argentinean reparations programme for grave violations of human rights perpetrated during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) / Andrea Gualde and Natalia Luterstein -- Reparations for victims in Colombia : Colombia's law on justice and peace / Julián Guerrero Orozco and Mariana Goetz -- Policy challenges for property restitution in transition : the example of Iraq / Peter Van der Auweraert -- Reparations in Dayton's Bosnia and Herzegovina / Carla Ferstman and Sheri P. Rosenberg -- Goats & graves : reparations in Rwanda's community courts / Lars Waldorf -- Still not talking : the South African government's exclusive reparations policy and the impact of the R30,000 financial reparations on survivors / Oupa Makhalemele.