Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
The University of Oxford and the International Criminal Court Bar Association held a workshop and training on victim participation at the ICC, on 31 May and 1 June 2018.
The expert workshop and the victim-counsel training centred on specific aspects of victim participation, including theoretical and jurisprudential developments, reparation jurisprudence, as well as ethical, psychological and practical considerations in client-counsel relations in victim representation at the ICC.
This event was part of the Impact Acceleration Award project “Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Developing Avenues for Collaboration”, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
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The event was conducted in English.
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The programme from the event is available here.
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The biographies of speakers are available here.
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Thursday 31 May
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Presentation - "A Waste of Time or No Time to Waste" - Dr. Nadia Banteka
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Presentation: "Can reparations transform societies?" - Dr. Leila Ullrich
Friday 1 June
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Session I
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Session II
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Practical Exercise I: Questioning by a Legal Representative of a dual status individual(participating victim and witness called by the Prosecution)
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Practical Exercise II Oral argument on a substantive/procedural topic
Session III
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Rome Statute - Article 70
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