Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts [Paperback]

A multi-level analysis of truth commissions and courts in the ICC era.Alison Bisset's multi-level evaluation of the relationship between the two most commonly used transitional justice mechanisms identifies and analyses the challenges posed by their contemporaneous operation at national, inter-state and international levels and formulates proposals to enable their effective coexistence.Alison Bisset's multi-level evaluation of the relationship between the two most commonly used transitional justice mechanisms identifies and analyses the challenges posed by their contemporaneous operation at national, inter-state and international levels and formulates proposals to enable their effective coexistence.This detailed evaluation of the relationship between trials and truth commissions challenges their assumed compatibility through an analysis of their operational features at national, inter-state and international levels. Alison Bisset conducts case-study analyses of national practice in South Africa, East Timor and Sierra Leone, evaluates the problems posed by the International Criminal Court and considers the challenges presented by the possibility of bystander state prosecutions. At each level, she highlights potential operational conflicts and formulates targeted proposals to enable effective coexistence.1. Truth commissions and trials within the transitional justice framework; 2. Truth commissions and international jurisdiction to prosecute; 3. Coordinating truth commissions and trials at the national level; 4. Coordinating truth commissions and ICC operations; 5. Coordinating truth commissions and prosecutions in bystander states; 6. Conclusion: coordinating truth commissions and trials in the ICC era. & this is a highly readable, carefully and clearly worked text that achieves the rare virtue of holding many key legal developments in view simultaneously and expounding them with admirable clarity. Legal scholars and students, as well as other- or inter-disciplinary lS_