1 Thomas M.Franck, Recourse To Force 16 (2002).

2 Id. (citing Kofi A. Annan, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, para. 218, UN Doc. A/54/2000 (2000)).

3 UN Press Release SG/SM/8892, SC/7881 (Sept. 24,2003) (containing secretary-general's remarks to the ministerial meeting of the Security Council on “Justice and the Rule of Law: The United Nations Role“).

4 Somini Sengupta, Besieged Liberian, N.Y. TIMES, July 11, 2003, at A7. A leader of a regional nongovernmental organization reacted as follows: “As a member of the international community, we should respect international commitments and conventions. But if giving Charles Taylor an exit passage will save ordinary Liberians from disaster, from maiming, from all the problems of war, then it's worthwhile. “

5 Jess Bravin, A Prosecutor Vows No Deals for Thugs in Sierra Leone War: American's Zeal Complicates Diplomats’ Ideas to Deal with the Crisis Present in West Africa, WASH. POST, July 28, 2002, at Al.

6 [Editor's Note: During the Clinton administration, the reviewer served as special assistant to the president for Southeast European stabilization and reconstruction, and as a member of the secretary of state's Policy Planning Staff.]

7 The authors define the term “norm of justice” as a combination of “truth, fairness, rectitude and retribution/ requital” (p. 12).

8 Richard Goldstone, Reconstructing Peace in Fragmented Societies, Address to the Center for Development Research (ZEFBonn) (Dec. 16, 2000), at http://www.zef.de/download/euinic_conflict/goldstone.pdf.

9 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2002 COUNTRYREPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES (2003), a«http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18356.htm.