The archival politics of international courts /
Redwood, Henry,1988-author.
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal justice (ICJ) or international relations (IR) studies. Yet, as this book argues, these archives both contain a significant record of past violence, and also help to constitute the international community as a particular reality. As such, this book first offers an interdisciplinary reading of archives, integrating new insights from IR, archival science and post-colonial anthropology to establish the link between archives and community formation. It then focuses on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's archive, to offer a critical reading of how knowledge is produced in international courts, provides an account of the type of international community that is imagined within these archives, and establishes the importance of the materiality of archives for understanding how knowledge is produced and contested within the international domain.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - King's College London, 2018) issued under title: Accounting for violence : the production, power and ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's archive.
"International criminal trials produce an overwhelming volume of information. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's (ICTR) judicial archive, based in Arusha, Tanzania, alone contains thousands of linear metres of documents. Sitting at the heart of the ICTR's archive is the testimony of the witnesses, which formed the main evidence base at the ICTR. This totals approximately 26,000 hours of testimony, produced by 3,200 witnesses across 6,000 trial days."--ECIP introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-222) and index.
The politics of archival knowledge in international courts -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda -- The force of law -- Contesting the archive -- Reconstituting justice -- Imagining community -- The residual mechanism and the archive.
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal justice (ICJ) or international relations (IR) studies. Yet, as this book argues, these archives both contain a significant record of past violence, and also help to constitute the international community as a particular reality. As such, this book first offers an interdisciplinary reading of archives, integrating new insights from IR, archival science and post-colonial anthropology to establish the link between archives and community formation. It then focuses on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda's archive, to offer a critical reading of how knowledge is produced in international courts, provides an account of the type of international community that is imagined within these archives, and establishes the importance of the materiality of archives for understanding how knowledge is produced and contested within the international domain.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Court records
International criminal courts