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March 1, 2006
Ensuring the Independence of the International Criminal Court
Access to Justice / Justice Efficiency
Ensuring the Independence of the International Criminal Court
DATE
March 1, 2006
AUTHORS
Eileen Skinnider
YEARS
2006
POLICIES
Access to Justice / Justice Efficiency
Ensuring the Independence of the International Criminal Court
One of the main goals of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is to uphold the interests of justice while not pursuing any political goals. However, because of the nature of the ICC’s subject matter – genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, which are often committed with some political objective in mind, almost every decision of the ICC will have political overtones. The key question addressed in this short paper is how the ICC can ensure it will be impartial or, in other words, act in the absence of any political motivation.
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