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Aug
05

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. Featured in this video: Lloyd Axworthy, former Minister of Canada; Cecile Aptel, International Center for Transitional Justice; Christopher Stone, Harvard Kennedy School; Silvana Arbia, International Criminal Court; Christian Wenaweser, Assembly of States Parties; Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University; General Óscar Naranjo, Colombia National Police; Patrick Robinson, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Dinah L. Shelton, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Jim Goldston, Open Society Justice Initiative; Bahame Tom Nyanduga, African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. Follow this Series of Mini-Documentaries on the System of International Criminal Justice This mini-documentary is one of a series created by Skylight Pictures from the

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