Waging War, Making Peace is a collection of essays that examines, through anthropological case studies, the necessity and efficacy of reparations in post-conflict and transitional societies. The editors, as well as many of the individual authors, distinguish anthropology’s focus on individuals and groups from the traditional legal focus on state responsibility. Through the examination of case studies in Nicaragua, Peru, Morocco, the United States, Diego Garcia, Belize, Guatemala, Cyprus, and Israel-Palestine, the editors make three crucial points: reparations “must be construed more broadly” to include offerings other than monetary compensation …

INTRODUCTION
Crafted in the wake of World War II, the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”) was the first regional expression of fundamental human rights protection as asserted in the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (“UDHR”). Its codified rights, primarily civil and political rights such as the right to life and the right to be free from torture, were to be protected by the European Commission on Human Rights (“the Commission”), (now defunct) and its supervisory body, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR” or “the Court”), which …