In Search of Accountability: Justice after Nuremberg
On February 2, 2011, the Museum hosted a distinguished panel of leaders in the field of international justice to assess whether a lasting system of accountability for the world’s most serious crimes is finally coming into place.
Since the Nuremberg trials of 1945–46, democracies have struggled to establish a legal infrastructure to hold accountable those responsible for genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. The experts discussed whether the mechanisms created by this tribunal are up to the task today of delivering justice to the perpetrators of wartime atrocities and what strategies are required for nations to deal with a new generation of non-state violent extremists.