Collective Responsibility and Postconflict Justice, in Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing (Tracy Isaacs & Richard Vernon eds., 2011)

Collective Responsibility and Postconflict Justice, in Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing (Tracy Isaacs & Richard Vernon eds., 2011)

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How best to secure justice in the aftermath of mass atrocity? International criminal tribunals – and courtrooms and jailhouses generally – have emerged as influential accountability mechanisms. Yet the justice pursued by international criminal tribunals, although tangible, also is strikingly under-inclusive. These limitations suggest that adequately redressing collective violence might contemplate a discursive shift to inclusively incorporating other accountability mechanisms, including collective forms of responsibility. Collective responsibility implies non-criminal sanctions that attach to groups whose misfeasance or nonfeasance is supportive of, acquiescent in, causally connected to, or necessary for serious violations of international criminal law to occur. This paper examines what collective responsibility mechanisms might look like; what ends they might serve; what dangers they pose; and how they might contribute to a more robust instantiation of post-conflict justice.

ISBN

9781107002890

Publication Date

2011

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Disciplines

Law | Law and Philosophy | Law and Politics | Law and Society | Military, War, and Peace

Collective Responsibility and Postconflict Justice, in Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing (Tracy Isaacs & Richard Vernon eds., 2011)

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