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More than 40 years after the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, a number of ad hoc, temporary courts were created to try those alleged of serious crimes — genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity — committed in several countries: the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Lebanon. These courts were either international, or mixed national/international bodies. In 1998, a permanent court was created, the International Criminal Court.
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See Y. Beigbeder (2006), Judging War Crimes and Torture: French Justice and International Criminal Tribunals and Commissions (1940–2005) (Leiden, NL/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers): 13.
Colloquium (2004), ‘Colloquium of Prosecutors of International Criminal Tribunals on “The Challenges of International Criminal Justice”’, Report of Proceedings, 25–27 November 2004: 5–6.
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Ibid. 23–318.
Ibid., 321, 322–32.
Transitional Justice is based on the concept of a new direction in human rights advocacy: helping societies to heal by accounting for and addressing past crimes after a period of repressive rule or armed conflict. The International Center for Transitional Justice was created in 2001 in New York City. Its approach includes prosecuting perpetrators, documenting and acknowledging violations through non-judicial means such as truth commissions, reforming abusive institutions, providing reparations to victims, and facilitating reconciliation processes. See P. Hazan (2007), Juger la guerre, juger l’Histoir:, Du bon usage des Commissions Vérité et de la justice internationale (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France): 44, 46.
P.F. Diehl, C. Ku and D. Zamora (2003), ‘Dynamics of International Law: Interaction of Normative Operating Systems’, International Organization: 57–8.
N. Fritz (2008), ‘When International Justice Is Feared as Colonisation by Law, The Application of Global Legal Accountability Is No Open and Shut Case’, The Times — South Africa, 25 May 2008.
D. Gierycz (2008), Transitional Justice — Does It Help Or Does It Harm? NUPI Working Paper 737 (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs).
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Beigbeder, Y. (2011). Introduction. In: International Criminal Tribunals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305052_1
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