INVESTIGADORES
KUPERMAN Marcelo Nestor
artículos
Título:
Crimes against Humanity: The Role of International Courts
Autor/es:
E. SCHNEIDER; J. R. IGLEISAS; M KUPERMAN; K. HALLBERG
Revista:
PLOS ONE
Editorial:
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Referencias:
Lugar: San Francisco; Año: 2014 vol. 9 p. 99064 - 99068
ISSN:
1932-6203
Resumen:
We study the role of international tribunals, like the International Criminal Court (ICC), as an effective way of reducing the
number and/or gravity of crimes against humanity. The action of the ICC is directed against leaders that promote or tolerate
these kinds of crimes, that is, political authorities, army commanders, civil leaders, etc. In order to simulate the action of the
ICC we build a hierarchical society where the most important leaders have the highest connectivity and can spread their
points of view, or their orders, through a chain of less but still highly connected deputy chiefs or opinion chieftains. In this
way, if they practice misconduct, corruption, or any kind of discriminatory or criminal actions against individuals or groups,
it would very difficult and improbable that they will be prosecuted by the courts of their own country. It is to alleviate this
situation that the ICC was created. Its mission is to process and condemn crimes against humanity though a supranational
organism that can act on criminal leaders in any country. In this study, the action of the ICC is simulated by removing the
corrupt leader and replacing it by a ??decent?? one. However, as the action of the corrupt leader could have spread among
the population by the time the ICC acts, we try to determine if a unique action of the ICC is sufficient or if further actions are
required, depending on the degree of deterioration of the human rights in the hypothetical country. The results evidence
the positive effect of the ICC action with a relatively low number of interventions. The effect of the ICC is also comparedwith the action of the local national judiciary system