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Origins of International Criminal Justice

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The idea of a permanent tribunal to try serious crimes including genocide and war crimes is not a new idea; it arose even before the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials prosecuted senior government officials for their roles in the atrocities of World War II . Although the idea for a permanent criminal court was shelved during the Cold War, a small group of committed activists pushed the establishment of the Court onto the international agenda during the 1990s. This chapter will explore the other international criminal tribunals that followed the Nuremberg and Tokyo experiments, including the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals and the hybrid tribunals in Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste , and the Balkans.

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Novak, A. (2015). Origins of International Criminal Justice. In: The International Criminal Court. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15832-7_2

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