ISBN:
9783642325014
,
1283935147
,
9781283935142
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 324 p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Grover, Sonja C. Humanity's children
DDC:
320
Keywords:
Law
;
Law
;
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
;
Kind
;
Soldat
;
Rekrutierung
;
Völkermord
;
Menschenrecht
Abstract:
This book addresses the phenomenon of children as the particular targets of extreme cruelty and genocide during armed conflict. Selected International Criminal Court cases are analyzed to illustrate the ICC‘s failure to address the genocidal forcible transfer of children to armed State and/or non-State groups or forces perpetrating mass atrocities and/or genocide. An original legal interpretation of children as a protected group in the context of the genocide provision of the Rome Statute is provided. The work also examines certain examples of the various modes in which armed State and/or non-State groups or forces perpetrating mass atrocities and/or genocide appropriate children and accomplish the genocidal forcible transfer of children to the perpetrator group. It is argued that the failure to prosecute the genocidal forcible transfer of children through the ICC mechanisms (where the Court has jurisdiction and the State has failed to meet its obligations in this regard) undermines the perceived gravity of this heinous international crime within the international community. Furthermore, this ICC failure to prosecute conflicts with the interests of justice and ultimately results in an erosion of the respect for the personhood and human dignity of children.
Description / Table of Contents:
Humanity's Children; ICC Jurisprudence and the Failure to Address the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Reconsidering the Legal Concepts of Genocide and the `Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children´; 1.1 Children as Targets of Genocide; 1.2 Genocide as a Separate Category of Grave International Crime; 1.3 Children as a `Protected Group´: Implications for Our Understanding of `Protected Group´; 1.3.1 The Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children and Children as a `Protected Group´
Description / Table of Contents:
1.4 Additional Points Regarding `Protected Groups´1.5 `Restrictive Interpretation´ of Genocide Provisions: Implications for the Notion of Children as Persons; 1.5.1 Restrictive Interpretation That Favours the Intention of the Parties Versus What Is Expressed in Text; 1.6 Foreseeability, Perpetrator Accountability and Rome Statute Article 6(e); 1.6.1 The Nullum Crimen Principle and the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children to an Armed Group or Force; 1.6.2 Evolving Conceptions of What Constitutes a Protected Group; 1.7 The Rome Statute Article 6 Protected Group ``As Such´´ Terminology
Description / Table of Contents:
1.7.1 `Forcible Displacement´ vs. `Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children´1.7.2 Genocide´s Special Targets and the Destruction of Future Generations; Literature, Materials and Situations/Cases; Literature; Materials; Situations and Cases; Part II: ICC Prosecutor Case Selection and Charging Decisions; Chapter 2: Gravity and Interests of Justice Considerations; 2.1 Ambiguity of the Test for `Sufficient Gravity´ Regarding Admissibility of the Case; 2.2 The Situation in the DRC: Case Selection and Gravity; 2.3 The Situation in Darfur: Case Selection and Gravity
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.1 Parallels Between U.N. Peacekeepers and Children as `Protected Groups´2.4 Legal Characterization of the Facts and the Assessment of Gravity; 2.4.1 `Relative Gravity´ and the `Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children´; 2.5 Children´s Right to Justice and Legal Empowerment; 2.6 Truth and Reconciliation Mechanisms and Child Victims; 2.7 An Additional Note Regarding Child Soldier Victims of the `Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children´; 2.8 Child Soldiers and the Question of Potential State Criminal Liability; 2.9 `The Interests of Justice´ and ICC Case Admissibility
Description / Table of Contents:
Literature, Materials and Situations/CasesLiterature; Materials; Situations and Cases; Part III: Selected ICC Cases Illustrating the Failure to Address the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children; Chapter 3: Case 1: Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Hereafter Also Referred to as Lubanga); 3.1 The War Crimes Charges: On Why They Were Insufficient; 3.1.1 The Confirmed Charges; 3.1.2 The Prosecution´s Closing: Selected Issues Arising; 3.1.2.1 Genocidal Forcible Transfer of `Child Soldiers´; 3.1.3 The Context of Armed Conflict in Lubanga; 3.1.4 The Common Plan and Genocidal Intent
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.4.1 FPLC Appropriation of Children as `Manifestly Unlawful´
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I Introduction: Reconsidering the Legal Concepts of Genocide and the ‘Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children’ -- Part II ICC Prosecutor Case Selec-tion and Charging Decisionn: Gravity and Interests of Justice Considerations -- Part III Selected ICC Cases Illustrating the Failure to Address the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children: Case 1: Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo -- Case 2: Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui -- Case 3: Prosecutor v Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir -- Part IV Conclusion: The Geno-cidal Forcible Transfer of Children: A Crime Well Established in International Law; Yet Still Not Prosecuted by the ICC.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-32501-4
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