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The ICC's Potential for Doing Bad When Pursuing Good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2012

Benjamin Schiff
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks to end impunity for the atrocity crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and, eventually, crimes of aggression. My contribution to this discussion takes a consequentialist view to outline ethical hazards confronting the court. Since the ICC has only recently begun to operate, with its first suspect, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, arriving in The Hague in 2006 and his trial completed only in the fall of 2011 (and awaiting a verdict in 2012), it is too early to reach a general appraisal of the court's effects.

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Roundtable: The Political Ethics of the International Criminal Court
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Spring 2012 , pp. 73 - 81
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2012

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9 UN Security Council Resolution 1593 (2005).

10 UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011).