Kelly Dawn Askin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199795840
- eISBN:
- 9780199345274
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795840.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter comments on the discussion in Chapter 9, which assessed the dynamics at work within the Office of the Prosecution before and during the Milošević trial. It argues that there were ...
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This chapter comments on the discussion in Chapter 9, which assessed the dynamics at work within the Office of the Prosecution before and during the Milošević trial. It argues that there were sophisticated international justice and human rights lawyers and political officers working parallel to the Prosecution's efforts who understood the complexities involved and who worked behind the scenes and in foreign capitals to facilitate the efforts of the Tribunal. Many were working on securing accountability for the highest-level perpetrators, and these share some credit for Milošević's ultimate downfall, arrest, and transfer.Less
This chapter comments on the discussion in Chapter 9, which assessed the dynamics at work within the Office of the Prosecution before and during the Milošević trial. It argues that there were sophisticated international justice and human rights lawyers and political officers working parallel to the Prosecution's efforts who understood the complexities involved and who worked behind the scenes and in foreign capitals to facilitate the efforts of the Tribunal. Many were working on securing accountability for the highest-level perpetrators, and these share some credit for Milošević's ultimate downfall, arrest, and transfer.
John Hagan
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226312286
- eISBN:
- 9780226312309
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226312309.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council ...
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Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With Slobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow indictees currently detained, the success of the Hague tribunal has forced many to reconsider the prospects of international justice. This book is a firsthand look at the inner workings of the tribunal as it has moved from an experimental organization initially viewed as irrelevant to the first truly effective international court since Nuremberg. Creating an institution that transcends national borders is a challenge fraught with political and organizational difficulties, yet the Hague tribunal has increasingly met these difficulties head-on and overcome them. The chief reason for its success, the author argues, is the people who have shaped it, particularly its charismatic chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour. The book re-creates how Arbour worked with others to turn the tribunal's fortunes around, reversing its initial failure to arrest and convict significant figures, and advancing the tribunal's agenda to the point at which Arbour and her colleagues, including her successor, Carla Del Ponte (nicknamed the Bulldog), were able to indict Milosevic himself. Leading readers through the investigations and criminal proceedings of the tribunal, it offers an original account of the foundation and maturity of the institution.Less
Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With Slobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow indictees currently detained, the success of the Hague tribunal has forced many to reconsider the prospects of international justice. This book is a firsthand look at the inner workings of the tribunal as it has moved from an experimental organization initially viewed as irrelevant to the first truly effective international court since Nuremberg. Creating an institution that transcends national borders is a challenge fraught with political and organizational difficulties, yet the Hague tribunal has increasingly met these difficulties head-on and overcome them. The chief reason for its success, the author argues, is the people who have shaped it, particularly its charismatic chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour. The book re-creates how Arbour worked with others to turn the tribunal's fortunes around, reversing its initial failure to arrest and convict significant figures, and advancing the tribunal's agenda to the point at which Arbour and her colleagues, including her successor, Carla Del Ponte (nicknamed the Bulldog), were able to indict Milosevic himself. Leading readers through the investigations and criminal proceedings of the tribunal, it offers an original account of the foundation and maturity of the institution.
