Hybrid courts have ranged from the ad hoc international Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR respectively), to the treaty-based Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), to international assistance to specialized units within national systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Timor-Leste. This paper was prepared for the conference "Fighting Impunity in Peacebuilding Contexts" in The Hague, in September 2009.
