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39 Nordic J. Hum. Rts. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/norjhur39 and id is 1 raw text is: NORDIC JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS Routledge 2021, VOL. 39, NO. 1, 1-17 https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2021.1939607 Taylor & Francis Group Victims at the Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo Department of Language and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland; PluriCourts, University of Oslo ABSTRACT KEYWORDS The Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court (SCC), the Central African Republic; latest hybrid criminal tribunal, may be considered an important Special Criminal Court; legal development concerning victims of mass atrocities in victims; restorative justice; international criminal justice mechanisms due to certain participation; reparations characteristics. Yet there is no academic commentary on victims at the SCC; this piece seeks to fill the gap. First it considers restorative justice as a general framework for victims' roles and rights in criminal justice in contexts of mass atrocities. Second, victim matters at the SCC are examined: victim protection, victims as civil parties, and reparations. Overall, this paper argues that provisions on victims' roles and rights contained in SCC instruments are consistent with restorative justice and international law, but that there are major challenges ahead. 1. Introduction Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) was created in 1998, several 'hybrid' or 'internationalised' criminal courts have been established to fight impunity and provide justice to victims of mass atrocities in more local settings. Generally, hybrid criminal courts present the following characteristics.' They are established via or as a result of an agreement between an international organisation (such as the UN or the African Union) and a particular state. They are created as separate institutions (for example, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, or SCSL) or as part of a national judiciary (such as the Extraordinary African Chambers in the Senegalese Courts, or EAC). They possess jurisdiction over international crimes and serious domestic offences committed in a state, and they consist of international and national officers. Finally, they are financed jointly by the international community and the respective state. The most recently created hybrid criminal court is the Special Criminal Court (SCC) of the Central African Republic (CAR).2 Following a memorandum of understanding CONTACT Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo perezlev@jyu.fi 'See Sarah Williams, Hybrid and Internationalised Criminal Tribunals (Hart 2012). 2Patryk Labuda, 'The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic' (2017) 15 Journal of International Criminal Justice 175, 181-86; Philipp Kastner, 'A Resilience Approach to Transitional Justice' (2020) 14 Journal of Intervention and State Building 378, 368-88. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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