QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND UNANSWERED 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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