Click Here to Watch the New Mini-Documentary on Domestic and Regional Complementarity
Would international justice be advanced or thwarted if an African Regional Court was given jurisdiction to try individuals for war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is it part of international justice to provide training and other assistance to domestic police, prosecutors, and defense lawyers as well as judges, or is this beyond the scope of the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court? In this six-minute video, leading figures in international justice debate these questions and others under the rubric of “positive complementarity,” the principle that the ICC should complement, rather than displace, domestic justice systems, and that it should encourage domestic proceedings wherever possible.
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This mini-documentary is one of a series created by Skylight Pictures from the proceedings of the Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice, held at UN Headquarters in New York in September 2009. Each of these videos, 5-to-7 minutes long, highlights a contemporary issue facing the system of international criminal justice.
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Future Titles in this Series:
- The Role of Preliminary Examinations;
- Colombia and the International Criminal Court;
- Victim Participation and Fair Trials at the International Criminal Court;
- The Emerging System of International Criminal Justice;
- The International Criminal Court and International Relations;
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