How complementarity works, and what its impact has been on the ICC and national authorities, are critical aspects of today’s debate about how best to pursue justice for victims. Readers will not find in the handbook discussions of the merits or demerits of particular ICC cases – or opinions on if the ICC prosecutor should have brought charges against one suspect over another. Nor will they find inroads on questions like whether the ICC has unjustifiably targeted African leaders.
By describing how complementarity works in practice and how it has been applied in countries like Afghanistan, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Libya, the handbook is meant to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the inner workings of the ICC and national courts and make some of the debates surrounding the court more critical and less polemical.
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