Essays about: "ICTR"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 20 essays containing the word ICTR.
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11. Witness Protection in International Criminal Court
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The witness is universally considered to be one the most instruments to ascertain the truth in criminal proceedings or as Bentham says “Witnesses are the eyes and the ears of justice.” Under the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s legal framework, witnesses who testify before the Court, persons at risk and their interaction with the Court because of testimony at the ICC are entitled to the protection of the Court not as a party, rather than an instrument to produce evidence. READ MORE
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12. National Ownership and International Standards Independence and Impartiality of Hybrid Courts: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The ICTY and the ICTR were established in the 1990s to determine individual accountability for mass atrocities. The tribunals have had a great impact on the development of international criminal law, yet their effects in the concerned societies have been disputed. READ MORE
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13. Time to Pretend? Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In a post-conflict context, reconciliation takes place between the opposite forces, and when an ethnic conflict has occurred; reconciliation takes place between the opposed ethnic groups. Thus reconciliation is part of a process of decreasing ethnic tensions, but not the only important aspect. READ MORE
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14. Current Development of the Concept of Genocide in the Jurisprudence of the Ad Hoc Tribunals and Its Possible Further Impact on the Practice of the International Criminal Court
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Though the practice of genocide traces its roots back to the atrocities committed in the ancient times, however, the international community has shown its reluctance to acknowledge the existence of that horrific crime. The impunity for the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks of Ottoman Empire in 1915 had a significant impact on Adolf Hitler who referred to the Ottoman killings of Armenians in his political speeches justifying Nazi's brutal policy. READ MORE
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15. Dealing with genocide - The judicial responses to the 1994 atrocities in Rwanda
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Today, 14 years have gone since the whole world turned their backs on Rwanda, the small country in East Africa, during a time when its population needed us the most. These were the same nations that already after the Second World War had made a promise about ''Never Again'', then meaning that they would never again allow another attempt to exterminate an entire ethnic group. READ MORE
