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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Special court for sierra leone"”.
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The Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
… personal experience of the 11 year civil war in Sierra Leone, and an interest in the Sierra Leone Government (SLG) and the International Community’s (IC) commitment to render international standard of justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. The aim of this research thesis is to investigate the …
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Sexual violence victim-witnesses at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Have lessons from ICTR been learnt?
Rape and other forms of sexual violence are increasingly becoming the order of the current armed conflicts of both internal and international characters no matter what the reasons behind the conflicts are. These inhuman acts are mostly committed against female civilian population by male soldiers …
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Hybrid and Internationalized Criminal Tribunals: Jurisdictional Issues
… such tribunals are currently in operation: the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Regulation 64 panels in Kosovo, the War Crimes Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Iraqi High Tribunal and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The key aims of …
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Exploring the differences and similarities in sexual violence as forms of genocide and crimes against humanity
… by subsequent tribunals who were responsible for prosecuting offenders.The case of The Prosecutor v Jean-Paul Akayesu was the first of its kind to give jurisprudential recognition and interpretation to sexual violence as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide respectively. This case …
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Religion and peacemaking in Sierra Leone.
… concerns religion as a peacemaking tool in Sierra Leone. The vast majority of people in Sierra Leone consider themselves to be Christians, Muslims and / or adherents of African Traditional Religion (ATR). This thesis examines the role of religious leaders and religious communities in the …
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An international legal perspective on conflict-related sexual violence: examining the plight of girl soldiers
… legal issue by closing the gap and bringing special attention to the academic sphere of International Law, namely International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and International Human Rights. The methodology of the current legal protection provided to girl soldiers in armed …
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Culture, crystallisation and courtrooms: the legal challenges presented by the criminalisation of child soldier recruitment
… international legal institutions - namely the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court - have handled the challenges presented by this new crime. These challenges have been identified as formulating a clear mens rea and actus reus, establishing the appropriate modes …
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Hybrid courts and their impact on the development of substantive international criminal law
… bases of and decisions taken by various hybrid courts with regards to such consolidating or fragmenting effects on substantive international criminal law. The first section (Chapter 2), it will examine what is to be understood by the notion of a hybrid court. This will be followed by an analysis …
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United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals: necessary or avoidable? An analysis of the different options for the residual functions of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals
… Security Council established the UN Mechanism for International Tribunals and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone to solve that issue. Tis thesis discusses the question of whether it was necessary to establish the UN Mechanism for International Tribunals or whether another solution …
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The scope of war crimes against peace-keeping personnel : Do Articles 8 (2) (b) (iii) and (e) (iiD ICC- Statute and 4 (b) SCSL- Statute fulfil the requirements of the principle of specificify in international law?
… the international community felt the urgent need for a better protection for its peacekeeping personnel.2 Therefore, attacks against peacekeepers have been incorporated in Article 8(2)(b)(iii) and (e)(iii) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC-Statute) as well as later in Article …