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Culture under Cross-Examination - International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Paperback)
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Culture under Cross-Examination - International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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The international community created the Special Court for Sierra
Leone to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for
crimes committed during the country's devastating civil war. In
this book Tim Kelsall examines some of the challenges posed by the
fact that the Court operated in a largely unfamiliar culture, in
which the way local people thought about rights, agency and
truth-telling sometimes differed radically from the way
international lawyers think about these things. By applying an
anthro-political perspective to the trials, he unveils a variety of
ethical, epistemological, jurisprudential and procedural problems,
arguing that although touted as a promising hybrid, the Court
failed in crucial ways to adapt to the local culture concerned.
Culture matters, and international justice requires a more
dialogical, multicultural approach.
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