Justice and Diplomacy Resolving Contradictions in Diplomatic Practice and International Humanitarian Law
5 - Alignment
Identifying Potential Alignments Between Diplomatic and Judicial Processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Summary
This chapter examines tensions that arose between parallel—and sometimes competing—diplomatic and judicial processes during the 2011 humanitarian crisis in Libya that resulted from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s deployment of military force against civilians calling for his ouster. In February 2011, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970, referring the crisis in Libya to the International Criminal Court, and providing for embargoes, sanctions and other assertive measures to end the conflict. Subsequent diplomatic support for the ICC was undermined by the shifted focus on military action and diplomatic efforts to negotiate “an arrangement” for Gaddafi to relinquish power in exchange for immunity from prosecution. This case raises several questions: What motivated the UNSC to act in referring the Libya case to the ICC at the time the National Transitional Council was created? To what extent were considerations of conflict resolution weighed in conjunction with the imperatives of international criminal justice? Could the contradictions between two UN mandated processes have been reframed as assets in negotiation processes?
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- Justice and DiplomacyResolving Contradictions in Diplomatic Practice and International Humanitarian Law, pp. 87 - 107Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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