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Why the International Criminal Court Should Apply Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice Principles to Improve the Impact of Its Criminal Trials on Societies around the World Open Access
Jeremy Julian Sarkin
International Journal of Transitional Justice, ijaf005, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijaf005
Published: 22 February 2025
... the insufficient role that criminal trials have played. Using restorative justice was supposedly incorporated into the International Criminal Court (ICC) processes to overcome the so-called justice versus peace dilemma, that is, the choice between punishment or contributing to peacebuilding and preventing...
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Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts
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Sofie Budhoo
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 82–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijae047
Published: 09 January 2025
... undergoing transitional justice efforts, focusing on their potential to acquire new meanings beyond their intended purpose. Through the case of the locally dubbed ‘victim cards’ distributed by the International Criminal Court in Odek, Northern Uganda, during the trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army...
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A new politics of international criminal justice: accountability in Ukraine and the Israel–Gaza war Open Access
Cecilia Jacob
International Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 6, November 2024, Pages 2563–2581, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae224
Published: 04 November 2024
... governance of human protection. International Criminal Law Ukraine Gaza International Criminal Court International Court of Justice In recent years, the world's most pressing conflicts have prompted a series of diverse international legal efforts to advance accountability for mass atrocities. In 2019...
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The Dilemma of Justice: The International Criminal Court’s Political Maneuver
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Parwez Besmel
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2024, Pages 439–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijae026
Published: 02 August 2024
... on transitional justice, focused on the conundrum of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. As a judicial entity, the ICC operates in a political environment. The tug of war of the ICC concerning what party to investigate is a testiment...
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Legacies of Colonial Violence in Contemporary Transitional Justice: Memories of Mau Mau, the ‘Kapenguria Six’ and the ‘Ocampo Six’ in Kenya Open Access
Anushka Sehmi
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 32–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijae005
Published: 09 March 2024
... as the ‘Kapenguria Six’ by the British colonial administration and the trials of six Kenyans alleged to be most responsible for orchestrating the 2007–2008 post-election violence in Kenya, known as the ‘Ocampo Six’ before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the Kenyan context, the influence of memories...
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Backlash and Beyond: Three Perspectives on the Politics of International Justice
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Genevieve Bates
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 682–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae003
Published: 24 February 2024
... the relevant manifestation of backlash developed, and the implications of it for courts and their legitimacy. Building on the work of Hillebrecht and Brett and Gissel, Franziska Boehme’s State Behavior and the International Criminal Court expands beyond the question of backlash exclusively, instead...
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Distance in the International Criminal Court’s Relations with the ‘Local’
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Geoffrey Lugano
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 16, Issue 3, November 2022, Pages 346–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijac018
Published: 19 October 2022
... the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) ABSTRACT ∞ The literature on the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) relations with the local broadly falls under the rubric of either acceptance...
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Friction in Transitional Justice Processes: The Colombian Judicial System and the ICC Open Access
Annika Björkdahl and Louise Warvsten
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2021, Pages 636–657, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab018
Published: 02 August 2021
... contact [email protected] Abstract With the aim of understanding how the International Criminal Court (ICC) affects peace processes, this article examines the Colombian peace and justice processes through the lens of friction. It investigates frictional encounters between the Colombian...
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Judicializing economic violence as means of dismantling the structural causes of atrocity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Anushka Sehmi
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 14, Issue 3, November 2020, Pages 423–442, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijaa021
Published: 20 January 2021
...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) International criminal lawyer currently representing victims in the case of The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen before the International Criminal Court. Email: [email protected] Abstract The International...
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Formulative Strategy: Why the African Union-led International Mediation in South Sudan Failed to Prevent Atrocity Crimes
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Obinna F Ifediora
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 22, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 301–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa019
Published: 26 December 2020
... vaste compréhension de la médiation de l'UA et remet en question les comportements hypothétiques des médiateurs. African Union international mediation genocide strategic patience international criminal court responsibility to protect Palabras clave: Unión Africana mediación internacional...
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Asset Freezing at the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights: Lessons for the International Criminal Court, the United Nations Security Council and States Open Access
Daley J Birkett
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 502–525, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaa022
Published: 11 September 2020
... of the asset freezing processes available to the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council. It does so through the lens of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, from whose jurisprudence, although not uniform, a number...
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Claiming Equality: The African Union's Contestation of the Anti-Impunity Norm
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Yuna Han and Sophie T Rosenberg
International Studies Review, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 726–751, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viaa065
Published: 10 September 2020
...Yuna Han; Sophie T Rosenberg Abstract By examining the African Union (AU)’s contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s cases against former or sitting Heads of State (HoS), this article analyzes how the AU's contestation of the anti-impunity norm varies in its normative significance...
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The Practitioner’s Bookshelf: New Books on Undocumented Storytellers in the United States and on the Crime of Aggression in International Law
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Rubia R Valente and Brian Phillips
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 11, Issue 3, November 2019, Pages 607–611, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huz033
Published: 05 December 2019
... of aggression immigration International Criminal Court storytelling undocumented migrants Sarah C. Bishop. Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. I know people from the university I attend, I know academic...
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Contesting the International Criminal Court: Bashir, Kenyatta, and the Status of the Nonimpunity Norm in World Politics
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Adam Bower
Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 88–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogy037
Published: 20 February 2019
.../open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the centerpiece of an expanding international norm of nonimpunity, which holds that all individuals should be equally subject to accountability for atrocity crimes. Despite rapid institutional...
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Measuring Norms and Normative Contestation: The Case of International Criminal Law
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Beth A Simmons and Hyeran Jo
Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 18–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogy043
Published: 20 February 2019
... and institutional applicability are still contested. Contestation over applicability is important, and there are hints that it is growing, at least among some key actors, suggesting the possibility of ICL norm decay. norms international criminal law international humanitarian law international criminal court...
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The Strange Case of the Victim Who Did Not Want Justice
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Frédéric Mégret
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2018, Pages 444–463, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy017
Published: 29 October 2018
... significant turn towards victims. This is nowhere more evident than in international criminal justice and the International Criminal Court (ICC) specifically, which has increasingly sought to justify itself as geared towards a ‘victim constituency.’ 2 Criminal justice designates and solicits...
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When Kings Are Criminals: Lessons from ICC Prosecutions of African Presidents
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Mattia Cacciatori
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2018, Pages 386–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy023
Published: 29 October 2018
... ∞ The attempts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute sitting heads of state have proven to be one of the thorniest issues for this new institution. These rest on the claim that there are crimes of such magnitude for which perpetrators should be prosecuted, regardless of their status. While...
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Punish or Persuade? The Compellence Logic of International Criminal Court Intervention in Cases of Ongoing Civilian Violence
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David Mendeloff
International Studies Review, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 395–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/vix042
Published: 02 December 2017
.../pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Can International Criminal Court (ICC) interventions in ongoing conflicts help curtail war crimes and civilian abuses that are being actively perpetrated? The court has increasingly intervened in such cases, partly...
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The Puzzle of Transitional Justice in Ukraine
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Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 11, Issue 2, July 2017, Pages 297–314, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijx007
Published: 12 April 2017
.... Ukraine International Criminal Court vetting corruption conflict Ukraine’s transitional justice record differs significantly from the well-studied cases of Central and Eastern European (CEE) states. Unlike most other CEE cases of political transition (except Romania), the Ukrainian transition...
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Counter-Shaming the International Criminal Court’s Intervention as Neocolonial: Lessons from Kenya
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Geoffrey Lugano
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2017, Pages 9–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijw026
Published: 18 January 2017
...). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email [email protected] 2017 ABSTRACT ∞ The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) intervention in Kenya’s 2007/2008 political crisis was reframed as neocolonialism by two of the accused – Uhuru...