A Quiet Transformation? Efficiency Building in the “Fall” of International Criminal Justice

Jones, Annika

doi:10.1163/15718123-01903002

A Quiet Transformation? Efficiency Building in the “Fall” of International Criminal Justice

Jones, Annika

Authors

Annika Jones

Abstract

In recent years, international criminal justice mechanisms have come under increasing pressure to improve their efficiency, i.e. to reduce costs and increase their speed of operation. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with staff and stakeholders in proceedings at the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, this article argues that pressure for efficiency and related reform is supporting ‘quiet transformation’ in the balance between conflicting goals that underpin the international criminal justice process; in particular, between the pursuit of accountability, on the one hand, and demand for fairness and victim satisfaction, on the other. It highlights the need for greater engagement with the underlying policy issues that efficiency building raises and for ongoing, sustained empirical research into the impact of efficiency building on the ability of international criminal courts and tribunals to realise their goals.

Citation

Jones, A. (2019). A Quiet Transformation? Efficiency Building in the “Fall” of International Criminal Justice. International Criminal Law Review, 19(3), 445-474. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01903002

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 11, 2018
Online Publication Date	May 11, 2019
Publication Date	May 31, 2019
Deposit Date	Jan 18, 2019
Publicly Available Date	May 11, 2021
Journal	International Criminal Law Review
Print ISSN	1567-536X
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	19
Issue	3
Pages	445-474
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01903002
Keywords	Efficiency, Fairness, Victim Satisfaction, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.