Prosecutions and Conflict Resolution: Is the ICC Using Africa as a Guinea Pig?
Friday, December 5, 2008
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST
Location:
Mortara Center Building Conference Room Map
This event featured Charles Villa-Vicencio discussing recent cases before the International Criminal Court, with a focus on tensions at the interface between justice and sustainable reconciliation and peace in Africa. While acknowledging that the 2002 ratification of the ICC constitutes a major step forward in the international struggle for human rights, Villa-Vicencio explored concerns over what is seen as a shift in some international human rights circles away from prosecutorial discretion and increasingly towards an obligation to prosecute. He suggested that the danger in this trend is that without adequate consideration being given to the political consequences that prosecutions may have in a particular context, newly emerging democracies may be pushed to the point of collapse.
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Prosecutions and Conflict Resolution: Is the ICC Using Africa as a Guinea Pig?
