The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals is a collection of essays by prominent international criminal law commentators, responsive to questions of interest to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 



Topics include: 

  Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Obtaining Evidence 

  Outreach: Challenges Communicating with Victims, Witnesses, and Others 

  ICC State Party Withdrawals 

  Measuring the ICC’s Performance 

  The Crime of Aggression: Scope and Anticipated Difficulties 

  The Rome Statute at Twenty: Reform Proposals 

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements 

  Foreword 

    Fatou B. Bensouda 

  Preface 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

  Notes on Contributors 

  List of Abbreviations 



Part 1: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Cooperation in Obtaining Evidence

  Introduction to Part 1: The Challenge of Obtaining Evidence in SGBV Cases 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 1 New Institutions to Support First Responders 

    Alex Whiting 

 2 Securing Cooperation by Redefining It 

    Christian De Vos and Betsy Apple 

 3 Improving NGO and IGO Capacity to Gather Evidence 

    Susana SaCouto 

 4 Securing Improved Cooperation 

    Kim Thuy Seelinger 



Part 2: Outreach: Challenges Communicating with Victims, Witnesses, and Other Stakeholders

  Introduction to Part 2: The Outreach Challenge 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 5 States Must Support the ICC’s Use of Technology for Outreach 

    Alison Cole 

 6 Formal and Informal Human Rights Communication and Teaching 

    Francisco O. Ramirez 

 7 Localizing Outreach 

    Patrick Vinck and Phuong N. Pham 

 8 Practical Strategies 

    Christopher and Olga Werby 



Part 3:The ICC Withdrawal Issue

  Introduction to Part 3: The Issue of State Party Withdrawal 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 9 Concerning the ICC Withdrawal Problem 

    M. Cherif Bassiouni 

 10 African Withdrawals and Structural Inequities 

    Kamari Maxine Clarke 

 11 A Court Worth Having: Defending the Integrity of the Rome Statute 

    Richard Dicker 

 12 Three Realities about the Africa Situation at the ICC 

    David Scheffer 



Part 4: Measuring Success: The Performance Issue

  Introduction to Part 4: The Performance Issue and Metrics of Success 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 13 Methodologies and Design of Performance Indicators 

    Geoff Dancy 

 14 Empirical Analysis of the Tradeoff Between Conflict Termination and Atrocity Deterrence 

    Daniel Krcmaric 

 15 Assessing Performance in Context 

    Gabrielle Louise McIntyre 

 16 The Limited Utility of the ICC’s Performance Indicators 

    Yuval Shany 

 17 Performance Indicators: A Double-Edged Sword 

    Carsten Stahn 



Part 5: The Crime of Aggression Issue

  Introduction to Part 5: The Crime of Aggression Issue 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 18 Understanding the Aggression Amendments 

    Dapo Akande 

 19 Difficulties Not to be Underestimated 

    Benoit D’Aboville 

 20 Three Difficult Problems 

    Yoram Dinstein 

 21 The Crime of Aggression: Definition, Jurisdiction, and Scope of Application 

    Donald M. Ferencz 

 22 Not Undermining the Use of Force Legal Framework 

    Tom Ruys 

 23 The Crime of Aggression and the Responsibility to Protect 

    Sarah Sewall 



Part 6: The Rome Statute 20th Anniversary Issue: Imagining The ICC’s Future

  Introduction to Part 6: Reform Proposals 

    Richard H. Steinberg 

 24 Reforms to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency 

    William Schabas 

 25 Building Support Through Enhanced Cooperation, Outreach, and Knowledge-Sharing 

    Adama Dieng 

 26 Returning to Customary Law 

    Fausto Pocar 

 27 Reforms to Enhance State Cooperation and Address Witness Interference 

    Goran Sluiter 

 28 Improving Investigative, Arrest, and Prosecution Strategies 

    Richard Dicker 

 29 Meeting Challenges: Politics, Trial Processes, and Early Judicial Work 

    Leila Sadat 

 30 Focusing on Core Messages and Human Rights 

    Carla Ferstman 

 31 Peace Negotiations as “Interests of Justice” 

    Dapo Akande and Talita de Souza Dias 

 32 Reflections on the ICC’s Relationship with the United Nations and Regional Courts 

    Bing Bing Jia 

 33 Improving Communication with Non-states Parties 

    David Scheffer 

  Index