Messages from the Expressive Nature of icc Reparations: Complex-victims in Complex Contexts and the Trust Fund for Victims

What is it about?

The International Criminal Court is the world’s criminal court. It can prosecute what are considered the gravest crimes of mass victimization and can award reparations (payments from perpetrators to victims). However, in these contexts of mass victimization, when the victims to whom reparations may be awarded are not the only victims or even those considered the most deserving, reparations can have a communicative effect that could be damaging to the victims themselves as well as the community that is trying to recover from the harm caused by the violence. This article makes this argument using the example of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

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