This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the
study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to
the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including:
Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History,
Violence Studies, International Criminal Justice, International
Relations, and Moral Philosophy. The contributors are experts in their
respective fields and the chapters highlight each discipline's major
trends, debates, methods and approaches to mass atrocity, genocide, and
crimes against humanity, as well as their interactions with adjacent
disciplines. Case studies illustrate how the respective disciplines work
in practice, including examples from the Allied Hunger Blockade, WWII,
the Guatemalan and Spanish Civil Wars, the Former Yugoslavia, and
Uganda. Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial
orientation when approaching the specialist literature in each case,
this edited collection equips readers with what they need to know in
order to navigate a complex, and until now, deeply fragmented field. A
diverse and interdisciplinary body of research, this book will be
indispensable reading for scholars of war crimes.