Epistemology of Resistance against Actions of International Criminal Court; Instances and Samples

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Article 10, Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24, June 2024, Pages 218-239   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/irlip.2024.79638.1334

Authors

Seyed Mahdi Seidzadeh¹; Mohamadmehdi Sadeghi^{* 2}

¹Ferdowsi University Mashhad

²PHD Student of criminal law and criminology

Abstract

The decisions taken by the International Criminal Court in different steps of the proceedings may face the resistance who are mainly political, military or security officials or their suzerain states. Resistances can be divided into two types of severe (Backlash) and mild (Pushback) in essence. The first type of resistances can cause the breaking up or invalidation of decision of this institution. In contrast, mild resistances not only do not seek to break up court, but can cause reduction or elimination of possible defects of the Court’s proceedings. However, instances of these resistances may overlap each other in practice. Terminating the membership in the court or lacking of cooperation of some African governments with this institution is considered mild resistances as long as it does not lead to the breaking up of the court or serious disruption in its work. The establishment a new courts and judicial parallelism, such as the African Criminal Court for the trial of Hissene Habre, sanction of the court officials, such as the cancellation of the visas of the court’s prosecutor in the case of American crimes in Afghanistan by the US government, withdrawing jurisdiction of the court that took places by Libyan government in the case of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and finally, obstructing along the goals of the court, which has been the policy adopted by various American governments as a non-member state of the court, based on the scope of their impact on the court proceeding and continuation of the activity of this institution or lack of it, can lead to either mild or severe resistances.

Keywords

International Criminal Court; Sever resistance; Mild Resistance; invalidation the court

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