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The SJAC Weekly Update- July 23, 2013

International Criminal Justice Day for

Syria?

Last Wednesday, International

Criminal Justice Day marked the

15th anniversary of the Rome

Statute and celebrated the

International Criminal Courts role in

confronting some of the worlds

worst human rights abuses. The

ICCs focus is exclusively

prosecutorial, such as trying and sentencing war criminals, but it hasnt

been a help to Syrians entrenched in violent conflict. The Courts inaction

in the face of tragedy has disillusioned many people about the potent ial

effectiveness of accountability efforts in Syria. Unfortunately, such

skepticism has also touched on transitional justice for some of the same,

and for some very different, reasons. But transitional justice is quite

different from the ICC, and transitional justice mechanisms are

consciously adapted to address potential difficulties.

Critiques of transitional justice have typically come from two, often

opposing, viewpoints. The first criticism casts transitional justice as an

internationalist idea whereby countries are made to import and apply

foreign legal ideas and forms of justice. In this line of thinking, transitional

justice is seen as an imposition of (often western) norms and authority

that coerce a country and, at worst, violate its sovereignty. With every

country enjoying its unique legal traditions and norms of justice, why

should outsiders seek to direct things, critics ask. The ICC, with its

authority to arrest and try defendants, is more frequently a target of thisline of thinking. KEEP READING.

SJAC in the News:

HuffPost UK on

sexual violence

The HuffPost UK cited the SyriaJustice and Accountability

Centre yesterday on the need toprioritize documentation andaccountability of sexual- and

gender-based violence in Syria.READ IT HERE.

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