A Philosophical Approach to War Crimes Trials Between Theory and Practice

Foreword
William A. Schabas

Introduction
Wibke K. Timmermann and Predrag Dojčinović

PART I

Definitions: Matters of Proof and Elements of Crimes

1. Between the Divine Image and Radical Freedom: Conceptualizing and Applying Human Dignity in International Criminal Law
Wibke K. Timmermann

2. Deciphering Conundrums of Intent
Carl-Friedrich Stuckenberg

3. Forbidden Intentions: Purpose, Pretext, and Double Effect in International Humanitarian Law
Alexander K.A. Greenawalt

4. Rethinking the Winds of Causation: Philosophical Foundations and Legal Applications in International Criminal Trials
Predrag Dojčinović

PART II

The Search for Truth: The Importance of Understanding the Reasons for International Crimes

5. Injecting the Concepts of Qualia and Lebenswelt Into War Crimes Trials
Anna Vyshniakova and Volodymyr Volkovskyi

6. Truth in War Crimes Trials
Yvonne McDermott

7. Moral Luck, Legal Luck, and the Prosecution of Former Child Soldiers
Shannon Fyfe

8. The Banality of Personal Motives in International Criminal Trials
Juan Pablo Calderón-Meza

PART III

The Search for Justice and Reconciliation

9. Phenomenology and Atrocity Victims
Gregory S. Gordon and Ryan Martínez Mitchell

10. Srebrenica, Conscience, and the Search for Justice at the ICTY/IRMCT
Dan Saxon

11. Global Justice Beyond Punishment
Margaret M. deGuzman and Katherine McAuliffe

12. The Reconciliation Goal of International Criminal Tribunals: Towards a Theory of Indirect Impact
Sigall Horovitz

13. Amnesties and Pardons at the International Criminal Court
Meritxell Regué

PART IV

The Point of It All: Whither International Criminal Justice?

14. Fairness: Between Justice, Beauty and Whiteness?
Frédéric Mégret

15. The ICC Between Law and Power: Past, Present, Future?
Yael Vias Gvirsman

16. The 'Oneness of Humanity' as the Starting Point for International Criminal Justice
Rod Rastan

Biography

Wibke K. Timmermann is a criminal lawyer at Legal Aid Western Australia. She previously served as a legal officer at the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Predrag Dojčinović is an adjunct professor and research affiliate at the Gladstein Family Institute of Human Rights, University of Connecticut, and a consultant with three decades of experience in international criminal trials.