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The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice Denver Journal of International Law & Policy Volume 44 Number 2 Article 4 April 2020 The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice Beth VanSchaack Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/djilp Recommended Citation Beth VanSchaack, The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice, 44 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 169 (2016). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Denver Journal of International Law & Policy by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HYBRID JUSTICE BETH VAN SCHAACK* I. INTRODUCTION The commission of mass atrocities-genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes-inevitably generates clarion calls for accountability from a range of international actors, including civil society organizations, governments, and United Nations bodies. These demands often center on an appeal that the situation be taken up by the International Criminal Court ("ICC") via a Security Council referral or action by the Prosecutor herself. Although the ICC is now fully operational, its jurisdiction remains incomplete and its resources limited. Furthermore, the ICC is plagued by challenges to its legitimacy, erratic state cooperation, and persistent perceptions of inefficacy and inefficiency. Originally envisioned as a standing institution that would obviate the need for new ad hoc courts, it is now clear that the ICC cannot handle all the atrocity situations ravaging our planet. As such, there is an enduring need for the international community to create, enable, and support additional accountability mechanisms to respond to the commission of international crimes when the political will for an ICC referral is lacking, the ICC is inappropriate or foreclosed for whatever reason, or only a fraction of the abuses or perpetrators in question are before the ICC. This paper analyzes the accumulated experience with international, hybrid, and internationalized judicial institutions prior to and since the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("ICTY") in 19931 and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ("ICTR") in 1994.2 This paper assumes the continuing utility of such mechanisms as tools to provide accountability for mass violence amounting to international crimes, particularly in situations requiring an alternative or supplement to the ICC.3 It thus focuses on * Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Stanford Law School; former Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department. Thanks go to the Stanford students in my Policy Lab on Legal & Policy Tools to Prevent Atrocities and in particular to Brendan Ballou-Kelley, Paul Bennetch, Marisol Nina Guttman, Sean McGuire, Tres Douglas Thompson IlI, Matthew Sellers, and Swain Uber for their research and input. The article also benefited greatly from the wisdom of Ari Bassin, David Mandel-Anthony, Jana Ramsey, Paul Oertly, and David J. Schwendiman. Denver Journal of International Law and Policy for provided excellent editorial assistance. The views expressed herein, and any errors, are my own. 1. S.C. Res. 808 (Feb. 22, 1993) [hereinafter Establishment of ICTY]. 2. S.C. Res. 995 (Nov. 8, 1994) [hereinafter ICTR Statute]. 3. For a discussion of the value of internationalized mechanisms in general, see OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMM'R FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, RULE-OF-LAW TOOLS FOR POST-CONFLICr STATES: MAXIMIZING THE LEGACY OF HYBRID COURTS, U.N. Doc. HR/PUB/08/2, U.N. Sales No. DENV. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y VOL. 44:2 practical elements of institutional design, with particular attention to the origins, structure, jurisdictional limitations, financing, and procedures of the hybrid courts, dedicated chambers, specialized prosecutorial cells, and other accountability innovations established to prosecute atrocity crimes at the domestic level with some measure of international support, expertise, and personnel. From this historical and comparative analysis, the paper develops a taxonomy of models and a "menu" of elements that can be mixed and matched as new accountability mechanisms are under consideration for historical, current, and emerging atrocity situations, such as Syria,4 the Central African Republic,5 the Democratic Republic of Congo,6 Colombia,7 North Korea,8 South Sudan,9 Sri Lanka, 10 Libya," 12 Burundi, and even the July 20143 downing of Malaysian Air Flight 17 ("MH-17") over rebel-controlled Ukraine.' E.08.XIV.2 (2008); Alberto Costi, Hybrid Tribunals as a Valid Alternative to InternationalTribunals for the Prosecution of InternationalCrimes, HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH, 2005. 4. See Beth Van Schaack, Alternative JurisdictionalBases for a Hybrid Tribunalfor Syria, JUST SECURITY (May 29, 2014, 12:44 AM), http://justsecurity.org/10968/alternative-jurisdictional-bases- hybrid-tribunal-syria/. 5. See Mark Kersten, Why Central African Republic's Hybrid Tribunal Could be a Game- Changer, JUST. CONFLICT (May 14, 2015), http://justiceinconflict.org/2015/05/14/why-central-african- republics-hybrid-tribunal-could-be-a-game-changer/. 6. See Democratic Republic of Congo: No More Delays for Justice, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Apr. 1, 2014), http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/01/democratic-republic-congo-no-more-delays- justice. 7. See The Last Lap in Colombia: Clinching Peace Depends on Persuadingthe FARC to do Jail Time, THE ECONOMIST (Jan. 31, 2015), http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21641293-clinching- peace-depends-persuading-farc-do-jail-time-last-lap-colombia; Time to Call the FARC 's Bluff: Colombia's Peace Process Risks Drifting to Collapse, THE ECONOMIST (July 4, 2015), http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21656694-colombias-peace-process-risks-drifting-collapse- time-call-fares-bluff. 8. See Morse H. Tan, Finding a ForumforNorth Korea, 65 SMU L. REV. 765 (2012). 9. See William Eagle, Hybrid Court Suggestedfor South Sudan, VOICE AM. (Mar. 31, 2014), http://www.voanews.com/content/hybrid-court-suggested-for-south-sudan/1883130.html/; Ending the Era ofInjustice: Advancing Prosecutionsfor Serious Crimes Committed in South Sudan 's War, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Dec. 10, 2014), https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/12/1 0/ending-era-injustice/advancing-prosecutions-serious-crimes- committed-south-sudans? ga=1.227964440.429423661.1399935943/ (arguing that South Sudan's judicial system is too weak and lacking in political will to support an embedded hybrid mechanism) [hereinafter ENDING THE ERA OF INJUSTICE]. 10. See Parasaran Rangarajan, Alternative Routes to Justicefor War Crimes in Sri Lanka, S. ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP (Feb. 12, 2015), http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1 710. 11. See Alison Cole, A Hybrid Court Could Secure Justice in Libya: Gaddafi's Son and Spy Chief Might End Up Before the ICC, but What about Everyone Else?, THE GUARDIAN (Oct. 27, 2011, 1:04 PM), http://www.theguardian.com/law/201 1/oct!27/hybid-court-justice-libya. 12. See U.N. Security-General, Letterfrom the Secretary-Generalto the Presidentof the Security Council, U.N. Doe. S/2005/158 (March 11, 2005) (advocating for a truth commission and a specialized chamber); see also S.C. Res. 1606, 1 1 (June 20, 2005) (directing the Secretary-General to initiate negotiations with Burundi to implement his recommendation). 13. S.C. Res. 2166 (July 21, 2014). Ukraine's original Article 12(3) declaration to the ICC was 2016 THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HYBRID JUSTICE While past proposals advocating additional ad hoc mechanisms may have reflected skepticism about-or even hostility toward-the ICC, contemporary submissions1 4 are more often premised on a pragmatic recognition of the limits of the ICC coupled with a firm fealty to the principle, and benefits, of positive complementarity. Rather than threatening to undermine the ICC, many proposals, if pursued, have the potential to contribute to a more integrated, differentiated, and impactful international justice system that will mount a stronger challenge to impunity by reaching more victims and perpetrators. At the same time, although this paper is dedicated to exploring the promises and drawbacks of hybridity, it cannot be gainsaid that there may remain a role for fully international tribunals to prosecute truly international crimes, i.e., massive crimes that transcend national borders and overwhelm national judiciaries. Although there have been important antecedents, the institutions of interest are part of a global trend of recent vintage toward international institution building and the judicialization of international relations. By way of background, the 1990's witnessed a sharp rise in the number of international, quasi-international, and regional tribunals established for the purpose of adjudicating a whole range of transnational disputes, including those involving international trade and investment, the law of the sea and piracy, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and property and restitution claims.' 5 The revitalization of the Nuremberg promise that international crimes would not go unaddressed first found expression in the formation by the U.N. Security Council of two ad hoc criminal tribunals to address crimes committed during the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the genocide in Rwanda. 16 These events also occasioned a revival of post-WWII proposals for a permanent international criminal court. The establishment of the ICC in 1998, and its operationalization in 2002, seemed to mark the apex of this movement toward ensuring accountability for international crimes, although penal proceedings before ad hoc tribunals dedicated to particular conflict situations continued apace. 17 With the establishment of the ICC, it was largely assumed that narrowly drawn and did not cover MH-17; with the most recent submission, Ukraine accepted the ICC's jurisdiction over crimes committed until early 2014, so there is potential jurisdiction over the Maidan protests as well as crimes committed in connection with the Russian annexation of Crimea. Declaration by Ukraine Lodged underArticle 12(3) of the Rome Statute, Ministerfor Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, INT'L CRIM.
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