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A Governance Studies Event

Darfur, War Crimes, the International Criminal Court, and the Quest for Justice

Darfur, Africa, Human Rights, Internal Displacement, International Organizations

Event Summary

The Judicial Issues Forum of the Brookings Governance Studies Program presented a panel discussion among leading experts on the calamity in Darfur and the international community's failure to empower a suitable war crimes tribunal.

Judicial Issues Forum

Event Information

When

Friday, February 25, 2005
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC
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Contact: communications

Email: communications@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

The session reviewed the gravity of the situation in Sudan, the controversy over efforts to grant jurisdiction to the International Criminal Court, and the limited potential of other options—such as turning to the Rwanda genocide tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, as an alternative.

Transcript

PIETRO NIVOLA: Today's discussion is about Darfur and the judicial miasma, if I can use that term, that the international community has once again got itself into in the face of a massive human rights crisis. The time for concerted international response to the nightmare in the Sudan seems long overdue. At a minimum, that response should include swift prosecution of the worst war crimes, yet somehow even that de minimis measure remains in limbo. To help us understand why and what the realistic options might be for breaking the impasse, we've assembled a first-rate panel of experts today who generously agreed to come here and discuss the situation.

Read the complete event transcript (PDF - 107kb)

Participants

Moderator

Stuart Taylor, Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings; Columnist, National Journal; Contributor, Newsweek

Panelists

Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, State Department; War Crimes Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1996-1998)

Elisa Massimino

Washington Director, Human Rights First; Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University

Jemera Rone

Sudan Researcher, Human Rights Watch

John Prendergast

Special Adviser to the President, International Crisis Group


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