Objective Although considerable attention has been given to the establishment and operation of international criminal courts and other international or internationalized mechanisms for determining individual and state responsibility in mass atrocity situations, their capacity remains limited and national courts continue to carry most of the burden of prosecuting the vast majority of perpetrators. However, efforts of the international community to ensure the proper utilization of national courts, as well as the coordination of their operations with international courts have been limited until now – leading to an incomplete response to highly complicated situations. As a result, awkward situation may arise where high-ranking suspects, with the greatest responsibility for atrocious crimes, are tried before international courts under better conditions than lower-ranking suspects tried before national courts; furthermore, failure to prosecute low-level perpetrators at the domestic level might exacerbate the collective exoneration of communities generated inadvertently by international criminal proceedings; finally, ineffective domestic prosecutions perpetuate the image of impunity and leave victims unsatisfied. The proposed collaborative project focuses on the actual interaction between national and international courts involved in prosecuting individuals in mass atrocity situations. It explores what impact international procedures have on prosecution rates before national courts, their sentencing policies, award of reparations and substantive and procedural legal standards. It comprehensively examines the problems presented by the limited response of the international community to mass atrocity situations, and offers methods to improve coordination of national and international proceedings and better utilization of national courts, inter alia, through greater formal and informal avenues of cooperation, interaction and resource sharing between national and international court Fields of science social scienceslawcriminology Keywords Genocide International Criminal Court International human International humanitarian law Reparations human rights war crimes Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH-2007-4.2-02 - Articulation of rule of law and protection of human rights at national, European and international levels Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator HASKOLINN I REYKJAVIK EHF EU contribution € 394 278,00 Address MENNTAVEGUR 1 102 REYKJAVIK Iceland See on map Region Ísland Ísland Höfuðborgarsvæði Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Thordis Ingadottir (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands EU contribution € 355 941,00 Address SPUI 21 1012WX Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Harmen Wilt, Van Der (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Israel EU contribution € 257 444,00 Address EDMOND J SAFRA CAMPUS GIVAT RAM 91904 Jerusalem See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Eran Vardi (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON EU contribution € 334 977,00 Address GOWER STREET WC1E 6BT LONDON See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Greta Borg-Carbott (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER LBG United Kingdom EU contribution € 44 324,00 Address REGENT STREET 309 W1B 2UW London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Geoffrey Petts (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data