This autumn the Crimes of War Project will bring out a revised and updated edition of our flagship book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. The new edition (branded as “Crimes of War 2.0”) is the first update in English since the book was published in 1999. It contains a great deal of new material addressing the many significant developments that have taken place in the last eight years, written by leading journalists and scholars, as well as a substantial number of new photographs.

The new edition contains 16 new or completely rewritten articles, many concerning such topical subjects as the U.S. “war on terror” and the war in Iraq. The new articles include: Detention and Interrogation (by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Priest of the Washington Post); Guantanamo (by Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal); terrorism (by Anthony Dworkin of the Crimes of War Project); Iraq (by Thom Shanker of the New York Times); occupation (by George Packer of the New Yorker); and Afghanistan (by Patricia Gossman of the Afghanistan Justice Project). Other new articles are: Darfur (by John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen of the International Crisis Group); the Democratic Republic of Congo (by French writer Gerard Prunier); courts and tribunals (by the British military lawyer Charles Garraway); the Second Intifada (by Israeli scholars Orna Ben-Naftali and Aeyal Gross); and private military companies (by P.W. Singer of the Brookings Institution). There is a new introduction by the book’s editors, Roy Gutman, David Rieff and Anthony Dworkin, and a new foreword by the jurist and scholar Richard Goldstone.

Apart from these new articles, many other pieces in the book have been substantially revised to bring them up to date with legal and historical developments since 1999.

The first edition of Crimes of War was described as “a book of landmark importance” by Aryeh Neier of the Open Society Institute and has been translated into ten other languages. Appearing at a time when the laws of armed conflict are at the center of public debate as never before, and when questions about such subjects as the treatment of detainees, the prevention of genocide and the morality of occupation fill the media, this new edition will be an essential resource for anyone who cares about preserving humane values in the face of today’s new and challenging threats.

Crimes of War 2.0 is expected to be available for sale in October. Advance orders can be placed with Amazon [click for U.S. orders] [UK] or with the publishers Norton [click for U.S.] [U.K.]. Further information is available from the Crimes of War Project by emailing [email protected].