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Ms Arbia sworn-in as ICC Registrar
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Welcome to the International Centre for the Research and Documentation of War Crimes Trials (ICWC)!
The International Centre for the Research and Documentation of War Crime Trials (ICWC) has existed at the Philipps-Universität Marburg since July 2003. Previously, as of 2000, it had been situated in the Max-Planck-Institut for European Legal History in Frankfurt-am-Main.
The work of the ICWC is currently divided up into 5 projects. These in turn contain several sub-projects, supervised by various members of staff.
- Philipps-Universität students in front of the ECCC building in Cambodia
Transition from armed conflict to a peaceful and safe era always causes a country to face difficult problems, where the assessment and processing of committed acts, as well as remediation, have an important part to play.
The Transitional Justice research project is to provide assistance in such situations in the future. The scope of this project is to develop possibilities and strategies through research in troubled regions and analysis of completed transition processes.
The ECCC Marburg Monitoring Group requires special mention. This ICWC working committee observes and analyses the workings of the ECCC. The committee cooperates with Prof. David Cohen of the Berkley University, who by and large created the ECCC Monitoring Program.
- Principal defendants in Nuremberg
Within the scope of this project we provide access to and enable the research of war crimes trials which took place after the Second World War. These represent a milestone in the history of international criminal law and have great practical relevance to this day.
Our long-term goal is to systematize all realized proceedings and enable access to them through our databases.
The material is constantly updated and populated in our proceedings databases. These make it possible to view the past judgments along with the appropriate sources.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), in cooperation with external partners, is building up a digital platform for international criminal law, including databases, a virtual library and application software. These are the so-called Legal Tools.
The ICWC concluded a contract of cooperation with the ICC in 2007 and will make relevant parts of its comprehensive database available to the Legal Tools under this project.
- ICTY at the Hague
The London Agreement on the International Military Tribunal established international criminal procedure for the first time in history.
The ICWC researches both the history of international criminal procedure since its inception as well as especially relevant questions in modern practice.