1. International criminal court
... other accountability mechanisms such as truth commissions. In particular, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and for Rwanda (ICTR)-established by the Security Council as Chapter VII enforcement measures-served as laboratories within which abstract, post-Nuremberg conceptions of justice took shape and became reality. The indictment of sitting heads of state, such as Slobodan ... between the ICC and the ICTY-ICTR model is the primarily consensual basis for the exercise of ICC jurisdiction. Although the Security Council may refer cases to the ICC as Chapt...
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