As we re-launch the International Justice Tribune after an absence of more than a year, we want to take this opportunity to remind our readers of how we see our role here at the IJT, and why we thought it important to bring back our bi-weekly international criminal justice magazine.
The need for global coverage of transitional justice becomes more pressing every year.
The actions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) interact directly with the way the Rwandan judiciary responds to genocide, just as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has shaped war crimes justice in the region. Equally, reading about the current workings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Liberia helps shed light on the meaning of Charles Taylor’s trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).
Understanding the use of global instruments of justice requires that we also consider the political realities and strategies of major powers. How can we fully comprehend the role of the ICC in Central Africa if the links between the conflicts in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad are not brought to light?
At the IJT and we aim to provide a unique, global perspective on how war crimes justice develops around the world, and on the interplay of international justice and regional or world politics.
In order to study the current trends and act upon them, researchers, academics, international lawyers, politicians, journalists and human rights activists need specialized and reliable information.
With its thirty correspondents throughout the world, IJT was, and is once again, the only publication that provides them with this service.
We hope that in the coming years, the IJT will continue its strong record of journalistic excellence and commitment to covering stories relating to all aspects of international justice, from court proceedings to the impact these trials and tribunals have on the daily lives of the victims on whose behalf the courts are established.
The 89th edition of the International Justice Tribune is now available. You can read it here.
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IJT 89 contents:
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No more than ten former members of the Khmer Rouge will be prosecuted before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). On September 7th, the interim international co-prosecutor William Smith submitted to the office of the co-investigating judges what he said were his final requests for investigation. They relate to five individuals, charged in two separate submissions, thus adding to the five people already prosecuted in 2007. |
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Civil parties under attack at Khmer Rouge court |
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Victims attending the trial of Kaing Guek Eav – a.k.a. Duch – were outraged when, on August 27th, the court’s trial chamber challenged their participation in the final phase of the trial. |
Interview Stephen Rapp, US Ambassador for War Crimes |
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“It’s important that we get back into a position of leadership”. Since 2005, Stephen Rapp has been prosecuting war criminals – first as Chief of Prosecutions for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, then as Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), where he lead the case against former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. |
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At the ICC: Afghanistan; UN Gaza report |
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Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, is gathering information about possible war crimes committed by NATO soldiers, Al Qaeda and insurgents in Afghanistan. |
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At the ICTY: Hartmann fined and Plavsic to be released |
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Florence Hartmann of contempt of court for quoting confidential court documents in her publications. |
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