The Major Powers on Trial

Dallaire, Roméo

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“…2As in the case of Rwanda, a moral paradox exists in that these very democracies also initiate and sustain the conflicts that eventually result in genocide; see Dallaire, Manocha and Degnarain (2005). See Buchanan (2004) for analysis of these issues in the context of international law and political philosophy.…”

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Theorising law and legitimacy in international criminal justice

Henham

2007

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper seeks to explore the relationship between law and morality and its relevance for establishing the legitimacy of international criminal justice (ICJ) within the context of international trials. At present, imperatives for peace and reconstruction in conflict societies are divorced both conceptually and practically from the process of punishment in international criminal trials. It argues that, in order for international trial justice to move beyond partial forms of retributivism requires a profound re-alignment of the rationales underpinning international penality and a merging of retributive and restorative justice forms. The paper suggests that the resolution of ‘truth’ must go further than this by implicating penal law and process as crucial determinants of ‘legitimate’ strategies for intervention, thereby enabling a wider choice of consequent resolutions. The paper suggests that the intrinsic value of international criminal process lies in its capacity to confront the relativism of ICJ by providing the means to engage with its plurality and so increase its legitimacy for all victims and communities affected by social conflict and war. In so doing it considers how law may be transformed into normative guides to conduct and examines the relationship between the processes of legal reasoning and sentence decision-making in international criminal trials.

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