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Paul R. Williams Rebecca I. It is an honor to testify before you today. In particular, it is an honor to be invited here by Chairman Engel given his long-standing commitment to peace and justice in Kosovo. I have been asked by Chairman Engel to discuss the international legal violations committed during the Kosovo War of In particular, I have been asked to speak from the perspective of an international lawyer with experience in designing accountability mechanisms.
I will address the remedies which have been made available to victims and potential claimants, including families of those murdered and victims of rape and conflict-related sexual violence, whose cases derive from the Kosovo conflict. I have been asked to assess the degree to which these mechanisms have effectively served the purpose of justice, accountability and reconciliation for the people of Kosovo. Specifically, I have been asked to share my thoughts on the future role of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a viable mechanism to afford ethnic conflicts in kosovo to the hundreds mosovo thousands of victims of that conflict.
I will then assess how and why access to justice, with particular attention to conflict-related sexual violence, has to date been beyond the reach of a significant number of victims in Kosovo.
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Lastly, I will articulate a number of steps we can take to begin closing this accountability gap. I was an Attorney Advisor in the U. I also served as an advisor to the Kosovo Albanian delegation at the Rambouillet, Paris, and Vienna Conferences, and I provided assistance to the development of the Kosovo constitution.
I have provided legal assistance to more than two dozen parties involved in peace negotiations, the drafting of post-conflict constitutions, and the creation of transitional justice mechanisms, including those designed to prosecute war criminals. The genocide at Srebrenica carried out by Bosnian Serb forces with the assistance of forces from Serbia proper prompted NATO airstrikes ethjic continued for one month ethnic conflicts in kosovo the parties met to negotiate peace in Dayton, Ohio in November of The resulting Dayton Peace Accords ethnicc an end to the conflict in Bosnia, but left unresolved the crisis brewing in Kosovo.]
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