Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction

Improving Inter-State Cooperation for the National Prosecution of International Crimes: Towards a New Treaty?

We live in a time where war crimes and crimes against humanity still occur on a regular basis. Along with genocide, these are the crimes the world has too often vowed to never again accept. In this context, an important recent initiative to strengthen the international legal framework needed for states to prosecute the perpetrators of such crimes in their national courts has gone relatively unnoticed.

Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
18
Issue: 
15
Author: 
Ward Ferdinandusse
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Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction
Global
Human Rights
International Courts and Tribunals
International Criminal Law, Corruption, and Law Enforcement
International Law in Domestic Courts
International Organizations

The Special Court for Sierra Leone

Introduction
 
The United Nations and Sierra Leone are about to establish a hybrid international-domestic Court to prosecute those allegedly responsible for atrocities in the Sierra Leone civil war. This will be the third ad hoc international criminal court to be created by the United Nations over the last decade, following the establishment of the war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993 and Rwanda (ICTR) in 1994.
 
Background
 
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Topic 1
Volume: 
5
Issue: 
14
Author: 
Michael P. Scharf
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Africa
Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction
Human Rights
International Courts and Tribunals
Use of Force, and International Humanitarian Law

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic To Be Tried in The Hague for Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Allegedly Committed in Kosovo

            On June 28, 2001, the Government of Serbia sent Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia, to The Hague for trial on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.  The surrender of Milosevic complied with an international arrest warrant issued by a United Nations judicial body, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, headquartered in The Hague. Milosevic, a Serb nationalist leader, was indicted by the tribunal in May 1999 on allegations of murder and ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo.
 
Topic: 
Topic 1
Volume: 
6
Issue: 
17
Author: 
Ruth Wedgwood
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Conflict Prevention and Mitigation / Post Conflict Reconstruction
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Human Rights
International Courts and Tribunals
International Criminal Law, Corruption, and Law Enforcement
International Organizations
Use of Force, and International Humanitarian Law