1: Overview 2: The emergence of international concern regarding conflict-related sexual violence in the lead-up to establishing the ICTY 3: Challenges to Successful outcomes in Sexual Violence Cases 4: Policies and Institutional Strategies for Successful Sexual Violence Prosecutions 5: Proving crimes of sexual violence 6: contextualising sexual violence and linking it to senior officials 7: Sentencing 8: The picture of sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia conflicts as reflected in ICTY cases 9: Using the OTP's Experience with Sexual Violence Prosecutions as a Springboard for Building National Capacity 10: Conclusion
Baron Serge Brammertz has been Chief Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since
January 2008. From 2006 until 2007 he served as Commissioner of the
United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission
into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri. In September 2003 he was elected by the Assembly of State
Parties as the first Deputy Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court. In that
capacity, he was in charge of establishing the Investigations
Division of the Office of the Prosecutor, and initiated the first
ICC investigations in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and
Darfur.
Previously he has been the head of the Federal Prosecution of the
Kingdom of Belgium and a national magistrate. He has also worked
for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and the
International Organisation for Migration.
Michelle Jarvis is an Australian lawyer with extensive
international experience and a diverse career covering litigation,
rule of law, women's access to justice and senior management roles.
She has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the past fifteen years and is
presently the Office of the Prosecutor's Principal Legal Counsel,
where she oversees the Office of the Prosecutor's legacy project on
prosecuting sexual violence crimes and she also served
four years as the ICTY's Focal Point for Women. She is the
Coordinator of the Prosecuting Sexual Violence Network of the
International Association of Prosecutors, and a trainer for the
Justice Rapid
Response Sexual and Gender Based Violence Investigations
certification course and served as an expert advisor for the UK
Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Initiative.
In sum, this is a significant work and a unique record that
provides a thorough elucidation of strategies executed by the OTP
in investigating and prosecuting conflict-related sexual violence,
committed during the 1990s Yugoslav civil war and which contributed
to the development of the international criminal jurisprudence.
Although this book is mainly directed to national and international
criminal justice actors, primarily investigators and prosecutors of
conflict-related sexual violence, it is also an indispensable
source for lawyers, judges, human rights activists and academics
researching these crimes.
*Hilmi M. Zawati, Journal of International Criminal Justice*
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