The Potential of Complementarity

ICTJ; Marieke Wierda
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The principle of complementarity is central to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to this principle, the ICC should assume jurisdiction only when states parties are unwilling or genuinely unable to carry out their own investigation or prosecution. This paper was written in the lead up to the Rome Statute Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda in May 2010.