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🗓️ 3 February 2022
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-chief of Current Affairs magazine. And I am here tonight with Professor Richard Gaskins of Brandeis University. |
0:23.6 | He is the author of the new book, The Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court, available from Cambridge University Press. |
0:32.6 | He also happens to be an old friend and a man to whom I owe a great intellectual debt, |
0:38.3 | having educated me as an undergraduate. |
0:41.3 | Professor Gaskins, nice to be with you. |
0:44.3 | Excellent to be with you, Nathan. Thank you very much for having me here. |
0:48.3 | So, the book is the Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court, |
0:52.3 | and you have now spent a number of years |
0:55.7 | over in the shuttling back and forth between the United States and the Hague, and observing |
1:02.0 | the unfolding of this institution, this attempt to create international justice. |
1:11.9 | I mean, your book, you know, people might not know if they're not familiar with the development |
1:17.1 | of the International Court, that the Congo trials that you center your book on are an experiment. |
1:23.6 | They were the first trials in the International Criminal Court, as I understand it. |
1:29.9 | And the court is really rather fascinating. |
1:34.4 | And I think what's interesting about your book, and I take it, that the reason that you wrote it is because this institution, the development of this new court to try |
1:47.9 | human rights abuses and the sort of worst crimes against humanity is kind of an experiment, |
1:55.9 | isn't it? |
1:58.5 | It's really interesting to see because it's an attempt to take the chaos of human conflict around the world |
2:06.4 | and try to apply these formal procedures to it and to try and figure out what justice is. |
2:13.7 | And they're all sorts of very difficult and interesting questions raised by this institution. |
2:18.7 | Yes, and one of the points you make that's very important to remember is that the |
2:23.6 | International Criminal Court is still a new institution. People may not have the precise history |
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