Building Victim-Led Coalitions in the Pursuit of Accountability

Authors

Diane Orentlicher, American University Washington College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Journal

American Society of International Law

Volume

112

First Page

23

Last Page

26

Abstract

Assurances ofvictim participation in proceedings before the International Criminal Court and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia have been seen as a welcome corrective to the flawed model of earlier tribunals. The first such tribunal created since the postwar period, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was established by the UN Security Council in May 1993 without even consulting those who survived the atrocities that gave rise to its creation, the majority of which took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nor were victims formally incorporated into the ICTY's work except for those who provided testimony and other evidence. (The same holds true for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established by the UN Security Council in 1994; in the interests of brevity, my remarks will focus on the ICTY.)

Recommended Citation

Diane Orentlicher, Building Victim-Led Coalitions in the Pursuit of Accountability, 112 23 (2018).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/2142