Birju Kotecha

Birju Kotecha is a graduate tutor at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle Upon-Tyne UK. He is currently writing his PhD on the role of the International Criminal Court in post-conflict societies.

The International Criminal Court: rhetoric and reality

Can the International Criminal Court deter atrocities and crimes? Using the persistence of conflict as a standard to criticise the ICC is fundamentally problematic and over-exaggerates our expectations of international criminal justice.

By Birju Kotecha

/ 20 Aug 2013