Is Criminal Law a Proper Instrument with which To Come to Terms with the Past?
(Milan Kuhli)
This panel will deal with the impact of criminal justice on post-conflict peace-building. The topic comprises international criminal courts as well as national criminal courts. In particular, the question will be whether and how criminal justice and sanction are able to promote post-conflict reconciliation—that is, the building-up of a new social order. Are the supposed benefits of punishment—e.g., preventing the falsification of history and avoiding the establishment of collective guilt – really the effect of the sanction or actually the effect of the trial? Is there any alternative solution to the use of criminal sanctions, such as the declaration of amnesty? Furthermore, the panel will deal with the problem of whether punishing large-scale violence might be in conflict with the principle of non-retroactivity or the requirement of personal guilt.
Samstag, 24.10.
IG Farben-Gebäude 1.411
14.00-14.45 Uhr
Vasco Reuss (Frankfurt): Über die Unmöglichkeit eines Strafzwecks „Vergangenheitsbewältigung“
14.45-15.30 Uhr
Benno Zabel (Leipzig): Zwischen Ordnung und Geschichte: Orientierungsstrategien des Strafrechts
15.30-15.45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
15.45-16.30 Uhr
Sabine Swoboda (Passau): Didaktische Dimensionen internationaler Strafverfahren
16.30-17.15 Uhr
Mayeul Hiéramente (Freiburg): Renationalisierung des Völkerstrafrechts?
