This event has been cancelled due to bad weather impeding the speaker's travel. We hope to reschedule this talk in the near future.
International criminal prosecution is seen by some as an essential tool to end impunity and reduce the extraordinary impact that war crimes and crimes against humanity have on civilians who are trapped in war. Others criticize international prosecution as simply another form of Westerners attempting to impose their view of justice on a skeptical world while ignoring and silencing the voices of the victims and the communities from which they come.
In this talk, David Crane, the founding prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone will speak about his experience in prosecuting the first sitting head of state for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Charles Taylor. Crane will elaborate on his belief that prosecutions of this kind must never forget the voice of the victims or their communities, and that the guiding question of international prosecutions should be “is the justice we seek the justice they want?”
About the Speaker
Read more about David M. Crane.
This event is co sponsored by Canadian Red Cross, Conrad Grebel University College, Project Ploughshares and Wilfrid Laurier University.