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Trauma, testimony, and justice
Memory
17. How can criminal justice systems be more
sensitive and responsive to the trauma of
adjudication processes?
23. How do legal proceedings interact with
memorialisation?
18. How does cross-examination produce and
avoid re-traumatisation? How can lawyers and
judges be more aware of this and avoid it?
How does the process of testifying produce
secondary trauma?
19. Is there a narrative that suggests that the
ultimate objective of justice is more important
than individual victims’ experiences, and how
does this affect victims and the legitimacy of
justice?
20. How can civil society, justice practitioners and
the ICC be more accountable to victims and
survivors with whom it works and ensure that
secondary traumatisation is avoided at all
stages of justice processes? Is enough being
done to provide psychosocial support in
justice processes?
21. How does the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s
Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-based
Crimes (2014) address the specificities of
trauma related to criminal justice processes
as a survivor or victim of sexual violence?
22. What kind of psychosocial support is
required for children borne of rape? Do
existing frameworks account sufficiently
for intergenerational trauma?
24. What can be done to foster memorialisation
processes that are political, social,
psychological?
25. How do documentation processes foster
memorialisation and accountability?
26. How does the imbalance in the ways in which
violence is memorialised reflect broader global
inequality and racism that suggests that white
lives are more valuable than black lives? Why,
for example, is so much more attention paid to
memorialising Western than to memorialising
African conflicts?
27. Why is memorialisation of the German
Holocaust in the Second World War so much
more expansive than memorialisation of the
German genocide of the Herero people in
Namibia?
Prosecution-centrism and frames of justice
28. How can international criminal processes
interact with other processes? Does one
displace the other? Is the dichotomy
presented between ‘local’ and ‘international’
processes helpful? What do ‘local’ and
‘international’ mean, and which lenses are
used to define them?
29. How do we ensure that, in advocating for
particular approaches to justice, we do not
26\ Accountability for conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: Successes, challenges, narratives, and omissions
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