This week, the judges of the International Criminal Court authorized the
court’s Prosecutor to open a formal investigation of Kenya’s post-election
violence, raising the prospect that political leaders from the East African
nation might face trial at the court. Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked
judges last November to approve an investigation into the 2007-08 violence and
whether Kenyan political leaders organized and financed attacks against
civilians.
In this 5-minute mini-documentary, leading figures in the field of
international justice discuss the possibility of an ICC case in Kenya in light
of the controversy over the fact that all of the ICC’s current cases are also
in Africa.
The Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice was held at
the United Nations in New York.
Conference discussion papers used to frame each session are available for
download at internationalcriminaljustice.net/.
Video, audio, session summaries, interviews, articles and a comprehensive
conference report will be published on that website and made available to the
general public.
The Consultative Conference was sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and
convened by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard
University.
Featured in this video: Oby Nwankwo, Civil ressource Development and
Documentation Centre Nigeria; Murtaza Jaffer, International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda; Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch; Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International
Criminal Court; Maina Kiai, former Chairman of the Kenya National Human Rights
Commission, Zachary Muburi-Muita, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to
the United Nations
– Follow this Series of Mini-Documentaries on the System of International
Criminal Justice-
This mini-documentary is one of a series created by Skylight Pictures from
the proceedings of the Consultative Conference on International Criminal
Justice, held at UN Headquarters in New York in September 2009. Each of these
videos, 5-to-7 minutes long, highlights a contemporary issue facing the system
of international criminal justice.
Please go to www.internationalcriminaljustice.net to receive notices of each
of the mini-documentaries as they are released through the end of May.