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Conclusion - The Relationship between Economic and Atrocity Crimes
from Part VI - Discovering and Recovering the Profits of War
- By Stephen J. Rapp
Edited by Nina H. B. Jørgensen, University of Southampton
Book: The International Criminal Responsibility of War's Funders and Profiteers
Published online: 18 September 2020
Print publication: 17 September 2020, pp 506-523
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This chapter, which serves as a conclusion, aims to tighten the strands linking the wide spectrum of international and domestic legal instruments discussed in the book. The chapter notes that the relationship between economic crime and atrocity crime may open opportunities to achieve accountability where the economic crime route is open while other routes are effectively blocked. After providing an account of the efforts to secure Charles Taylor’s assets in the context of his trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the chapter proceeds to offer ideas for the way forward via the economic crime and other routes.

7 - Courtly cultures: western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan
from Part II - Eurasian commonalities
- By Patrick J. Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville, Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spieß, Stephen West, Pauline Yu
Edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Book: The Cambridge World History
Published online: 05 May 2015
Print publication: 09 April 2015, pp 179-205
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Courts are centers of power, whether religious or political, which create cultural forms that represent these centers to themselves and to those outside them. The continuity of great courts contrasted with the peripatetic courts of India and Western Europe. In virtually every court, cultural production, both by and for members of the court, developed forms that sought to separate court culture from the rest of society. Western courts, like those of Japan, were but one center of cultural production, the other being major monastic foundations. Chinese and Japanese courts followed prescribed cycles of annual events through various rites, festivals, banquets, and ceremonies. The Chinese court formed the model for Eastern courts such as the Japanese, while the Byzantine, which had absorbed aspects of Persian courts before the Islamic conquest as had those of India, provided a model for Western Christian and Islamic courts, which in turn influenced each other.

Biographies of Contributors
- By Cecile Aptel, Roberta Arnold, Sareta Ashraph, Mohamed A. Bangura, Ilias Bantekas, Linda E. Carter, Theresa M. Clark, Vivian Grosswald Curran, Margaret M. deGuzman, Amy E. DiBella, Viviane E. Dittrich, Jennifer Easterday, Stuart Ford, Micaela Frulli, Kenneth S. Gallant, Lansana Gberie, Annie Gell, Charles Chernor Jalloh, Wayne Jordash, Sara Kendall, Alhagi B. M. Marong, Scott Martin, Simon M. Meisenberg, Chacha Bhoke Murungu, Vincent O. Nmehielle, Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky, Valerie Oosterveld, Peter Penfold, René Provost, Stephen J. Rapp, Leila Nadya Sadat, Shakiratu Sanusi, Michael P. Scharf, Alpha Sesay, Sandesh Sivakumaran, Alison Smith, Sidney Thompson, Harmen van der Wilt
Edited by Charles Chernor Jalloh
Book: The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy
Published online: 05 January 2014
Print publication: 16 December 2013, pp xiii-xxiv
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The Challenge of Choice in the Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
from Keynote Address
- By Stephen J. Rapp
Edited by Charles Chernor Jalloh
Book: The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy
Published online: 05 January 2014
Print publication: 16 December 2013, pp 23-38
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7 - Courtly cultures: western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan

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The Challenge of Choice in the Investigation and Prosecution of International Crimes in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone