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Bespoke Transitional Justice at the International Criminal Court, in Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya
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2015
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139924528.007
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This chapter grapples with the question of whether the International
Criminal Court (ICC) should be conceptualised as a mechanism of
transitional justice. Most theorists insist that transitional justice is either
an inappropriate or an unrealistic goal for the Court. Some scholars have
proposed that the Court might more accurately be theorised as seeking to
achieve political goals through ‘juridified diplomacy’. Others suggest that
the Court should speak to a global, rather than local, audience. A third
school of thought criticises international criminal law as insufficiently
focused on the preferences of societies affected by mass violence. Going
one step further, some theorists suggest that the Court should be set aside
in favour of mechanisms that are more responsive to local preferences.
Although the incorporation of the ICC into a locally owned transitional
justice paradigm faces substantial challenges, this chapter draws on a
theory of ‘bespoke transitional justice’ to suggest ways in which this
knotty relationship might be better designed.
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Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Bespoke transitional justice at the International Criminal Court, in Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions 106–121 (Christian De Vos, Sara Kendall, & Carsten Stahn eds., 2015).
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Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions, (Christian De Vos, Sara Kendall, & Carsten Stahn eds., 2015).
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