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| January 15-18, 2006 |
Peace Boat organizes a study visit to The War Crime Tribunals in den Haag with students of Tuebingen University, Germany |
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In January 2006 Peace Boat organized a study visit to the institutions of international justice in den Haag, The Netherlands, for a students from Tuebingen University, Germany.
The groups comprised of students who are of German, Dutch and American nationality. They are students of the newly established MA course, “Peace Research and International Politics” at Tuebingen University. |
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The visit is a follow-up to the study programme “Addressing History and the Past” held onboard Peace Boat in July 2005, when a group of German students from Teubingen University joined Peace Boat’s 49th voyage. German students and Japanese participants discussed extensively on how Germany and Japan dealt with the legacies of violence from WW2, the meanings of justice, of guilt and responsibility.
Following the interest from the students to understand how international institutions today are dealing with war crimes and justice, Peace Boat organized the study visit for students of Tuebingen University to the UN International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia, The International Criminal Court and Coalition ICC in den Haag and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide in Amsterdam.
At International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia, www.un.org/icty students had a chance to talk to experts of the Tribunal, who explained how the Tribunal deals with responsibility of persons in high political or military command positions, responsibility and the chain of command in cases of genocide. Detailed explanations on what the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide is and how the act of genocide can be defined and proved, attracted much attention from the students and provoked a lot of questions.
Law experts of The International Criminal Court, www.icc-cpi.int, talked to the students about the meaning of a permanent criminal court for international justice and international political affairs. Students raised many questions, particularly about the definition of a “crime of aggression” and how political and legal consensus can be gained so that this category of crime is actively included in the Statute of The ICC.
The students also visited the Coalition ICC www.iccnow.org, a network of NGOs, which advocated the establishment of The ICC and monitors the work of this institution today.
Discussion with young representatives from Coalition ICC was very helpful in order to understand how NGOs can intervene in international law and to make sure that humanitarian laws are fairly protected in the institutions of justice such as these.
Peace Boat regularly organizes study visits to regions and institutions in Asia, Europe and USA. Those interested in cooperation, please contact: pbglobal[a]peaceboatgr.jp |
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