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- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Financiers and Profiteers after World War II
- Part II Arms Fairs and ‘Flying Money’
- 4 Linking Economic Actors to the Core International Crimes of the Syrian Regime
- 5 Islamic State and the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property
- 6 Arms Transfer Complicity Under the Rome Statute
- Part III Developing the Available Law
- Part IV Where Should the Buck Stop?
- Part V Criminal Accountability and Beyond
- Part VI Discovering and Recovering the Profits of War
- Index
6 - Arms Transfer Complicity Under the Rome Statute
from Part II - Arms Fairs and ‘Flying Money’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- The International Criminal Responsibility of War’s Funders and Profiteers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Financiers and Profiteers after World War II
- Part II Arms Fairs and ‘Flying Money’
- 4 Linking Economic Actors to the Core International Crimes of the Syrian Regime
- 5 Islamic State and the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property
- 6 Arms Transfer Complicity Under the Rome Statute
- Part III Developing the Available Law
- Part IV Where Should the Buck Stop?
- Part V Criminal Accountability and Beyond
- Part VI Discovering and Recovering the Profits of War
- Index
Summary
From Yemen to Rwanda, Sierra Leone to Cambodia, it has often been claimed that those who supply the weapons that are used to commit genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity play a role in bringing about those crimes. An arms trader who knowingly fuels atrocity may be considered morally reprehensible, but is he or she criminally responsible? Modes of accomplice liability in international criminal law prohibit the conduct of individuals involved in the arms trade who assist in the commission of international crimes. However, international criminal tribunals have heard only a small number of cases involving commercial arms transfers. This Chapter examines how the ICC could fit into the existing regulatory landscape of arms transfer conduct in the future, in particular through its mandate to enforce the mode of liability in Article 25(3)(d)(ii) of the Rome Statute.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020