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Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Carsten Stahn, Carmel Agius, Serge Brammertz, and Colleen Rohan

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9780198862956

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2020

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198862956.001.0001

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Making Complementarity a Reality

Making Complementarity a Reality

The Experiences of the ICTY and IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor

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(p.31) 2 Making Complementarity a Reality
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Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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Serge Brammertz

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198862956.003.0003

This chapter presents a prosecutorial perspective on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’s (ICTY) legacies. It traces the evolution of the Office of the Prosecutor from a service that is grounded in primacy of jurisdiction into a more complementarity-oriented actor, in which interaction with domestic systems is an essential element to achieving justice for serious international crimes. The author argues that the support provided to national justice sectors in the countries of the former Yugoslavia is one of the most important legacies of the ICTY. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) started to engage with new techniques—including establishing the Transition Team—when the ICTY Completion Strategy was put into force. The OTP referred cases to national judiciaries, which improved in their capacities to process war crimes cases. The chapter concludes that the OTP’s cooperation with national courts establishes a new model of collaboration between international and domestic courts.

Keywords:   primacy, complementarity, Completion Strategy, ICTY, Office of the Prosecutor, cooperation with national courts, Transition Team

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