Summary
Does success lie in the number of people prosecuted, in the Court's deterrent effect, in its part in recording the history of a society in conflict, or in a claim to be part of broader solutions for ending conflict? A further measure of success might be how far it provides an incentive for states to prosecute international crimes themselves, or its ability to assist in strengthening national judicial systems in post-conflict reconstruction. For at least the next decade the most that can be hoped of Washington is that it will be less antagonistic, that it will be prepared to recognise the Court as a legitimate and useful option where international criminal justice solutions are needed, and that it will institute the long overdue reforms in its own criminal law to allow US prosecutions of international crimes - and thus incidentally ensure that the Court need not take jurisdiction over US nationals.
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Waiting for a Day in Court
VARIOUS MEASURES OF SUCCESS HAVE BEEN proposed for the International Criminal Court. Does success lie in the number of people prosecuted, in the Court's deterrent effect, in its part in recording the history of a society in conflict, or in a claim to be part of broader solutions for ending conflict? A further measure of success might be how far it provides an incentive for states to prosecute international crimes themselves, or its ab...
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