“The importance of the Goldstone Report was captured in Goldstone’s statement to the UN Human Rights Council, in which he stressed that pursuing justice for all is critical for ensuring accountability, which in turn is vital for ending impunity in the use of violence against civilians.”

Rami Khouri, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “The Need for Israeli Lawfulness and Accountability,” which Agence Global released on November 2, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2180

“Of all the dramatic and important things that happened in those tumultuous months after the Hariri assassination…the most important for me was the investigating commission. It represented two critical elements that have long been absent from the Arab arena: a legitimate form of foreign intervention in Arab affairs to try to stop the criminality that has plagued much of our public life for decades, and an attempt to use the rule of law, rather than armies and unilateral sanctions, to achieve this end.”

Rami Khouri, a senior research fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “Will Arabs Kill Each Other Forever?” released by Agence Global on May 4, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19002/