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Weaving the threads of international criminal justice: The double dialogicity of law and politics in the ICC al-Mahdi case
2021
International audience; In this paper, we examine the international criminal trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a Malian Islamist who appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, charged with the destruction of Islamic shrines during the 2012 jihadist occupation of Timbuktu. Our objective is to analyze the so-called 'al-Mahdi case' as a dialogical network (the destructions occurred in the context of an asynchronous translocal press-mediated exchange between jihadists and the international community) and as an event unfolding at a dialogical site (when the commander responsible for the destructions was referred to the ICC four years later). These two dialogical orders e…
Much Cry and Little Wool?: Determining the Exact Role of the Inter-national Criminal Court in Transitional Justice Efforts
2021
The International Criminal Court (“ICC”) is a milestone in the fight against impunity. However, the expectations for what the ICC can achieve have often been distorted. Thus, the main research question of this Article is: what exactly is the role of the ICC within transitional justice efforts? My answer consists of three parts. First, there is a need to delimit the ICC’s mandate, namely, what it means to be an international criminal tribunal as opposed to other international bodies, and how the ICC is embedded in a system which includes the States Parties to the ICC Statute. Second, academics and practitioners need to bear in mind that only few perpetrators (the “persons most responsible”) …
Evidence About Harm: Dual Status Victim Participant Testimony at the International Criminal Court and the Straitjacketing of Narratives About Sufferi…
2022
AbstractAlthough victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are not parties, they can apply to become “victim participants” and may be authorized by an ICC Chamber to directly and orally express their views and concerns in court. Most ICC Trial Chambers, however, have preferred allowing legal representatives of these victim participants to call victims as witnesses to give testimonial evidence about the harm they suffered. Our article focuses on the practical-epistemological challenges that come with forcing accounts of harm into this testimony-format. We draw upon ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to elucidate the discursive techniques by which legal actors in the Ongwen tr…
Humanity and Its Beneficiaries : Footing and Stance-Taking in an International Criminal Trial
2019
This article elucidates the role of metapragmatic devices like footing and stance-taking in trial hearings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It focuses on the case of Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi, a Malian Islamist found guilty of the 2012 destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu. We examine how the prosecution and defense reflexively formulate the hearing as part of a wider text trajectory and how they align personae across participation frameworks by locating the current courtroom event into a wider dialogical field. A careful inspection of these metapragmatic devices reveals how trial participants navigate the multiple tensions facing this emergent, amalgamated fo…
Disentangling Law and Religion in the Rohingya Case at the International Criminal Court
2021
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Military campaigns conducted by Myanmar against the Rohingya have led to numerous deaths, widespread cases of sexual violence, the destruction of hundreds of villages, and the deportation of more than 700,000 people to Bangladesh. These events have triggered proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has arguably failed to address the religious dimensions of crimes and facts in some of its previous jurisprudence appropriately. The entanglement of law and religion at the ICC may lead to an impoverished ratio decidendi and disregard for the victims’ claims. We hence argue that, by disentangling law and re…
KKO 2022:9 Voiko maalittaminen olla vainoamista?
2022
KKO:2022:9-tulkinta vastaa moniin niihin huoliin ja tilanteisiin, joita maalittamisen kriminalisointia koskevissa esityksissä mainittiin. Silti kaikki virkamieheen tai viranomaiseen kohdistunut palaute ei voi olla rangaistavaa, vaikka se olisi voimakastakin. Sähköpostin ja sosiaalisen median kanavien käyttö on johtanut siihen, että arvostelua annetaan helpommin, jos yksittäiset ratkaisut tai toimet herättävät keskustelua ja kritiikkiä. Rangaistava vainoaminen edellyttää toistuvia samaan henkilöön kohdistuvia tekoja. Yksittäiseen tapahtumaan liittyvä arvosteluryöppy ei ole vainoamista, jos se tulee toisistaan erillisiltä ja riippumattomilta tahoilta, kirjoittaa OTT, dosentti Riitta Ollila Ed…