Senior Fellow Pierre Hazan will provide a critical framework for assessing the possibilities and pitfalls of transitional justice mechanisms, especially truth commissions and international criminal tribunals.

Pierre Hazan comes to USIP through a fellowship at Harvard Law School. He was the UN correspondent in Geneva for the French newspaper Libération and the Swiss daily Le Temps, positions he has held since 1992. In this capacity, Hazan has covered numerous international crises including those in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Great Lakes region of Africa, the Middle East, and the Sudan.

Pierre Hazan is the author of Justice in a Time of War: The True Story Behind the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (2004), for which he has received critical acclaim, and The Victim's Guide to the International Criminal Court (2003) for Reporters Without Borders. Hazan is also an academic researcher for the Swiss National Scientific Foundation on International Criminal Justice at Geneva University since 2003.

He has produced four television documentaries with the Franco-German channel ARTE and Swiss Public Broadcasting TV; these documentaries explored such subjects as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Rwanda: Justice Taken Hostage, 2003) and universal jurisdiction (The Hunt for Dictators, nominated for the Pierre-Alain Donnier prize for TV documentary at the 18th North-South Film Festival, 2001).

Hazan is also a founding member of the International Film Festival on Human Rights in Geneva. He holds a master's degree in strategic studies from Aberdeen University (UK).

Speakers

• Pierre Hazan
  Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace

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