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In the months preceding the trial of Adolf Eichmann before an Israeli court, Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt exchanged a series of letters in which they discussed the trial and [...]

In this paper I explore the notion of collective moral responsibility as it pertains both to nation-states contemplating humanitarian armed intervention in international social conflicts, and as it pertains to social groups perpetrating human rights violations in such conflicts. I take the Rwandan genocide as illustrative of such conflicts and make use of it accordingly. I offer an individualist account of collective moral responsibility, according to which collective moral responsibility is a species of joint responsibility.

The uniqueness of the Holocaust has clouded perceptions of the increasing scale of genocide the world over. While many prefer to retain sacred memories of the Holocaust, others contend that comparison with similar events of mass extermination can serve to heighten its distinctiveness. Despite the extreme sensitivity of the issue, attempts to devalue the Holocaust can generate renewed awareness of long forgotten atrocities, such as the Gypsy genocide. Such exercises also question the world community's passivity on current issues of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Rwanda and Cambodia.

It is inarguable that NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia--provoked by atrocities in a civil war in a sovereign nation that has not attacked any NATO member--is hard to square either with […]

NATO gambles that it can stop the Serbs without causing a bloodbath in I Kosovo.' That statement, shouted from the cover of U.S. News & World Report, now seems to [...]