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Kirsten J. Fisher is a researcher at the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, a part-time professor in the School of Political Studies, and an affiliated research fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. She writes on issues of transitional justice, specifically post-atrocity accountability, and is the author of Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law (Routledge, 2012) andTransitional Justice for Child Soldiers (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
Libya, the ICC, and Securing Post-Conflict Justice
Since questions of post-atrocity accountability began to surface in regard to the “Arab Spring,” there has been interest in the pursuit of international-led justice in countries that have experienced uprisings, such as Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. There were calls for the involvement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in both Libya and Syria. The ICC has become involved only in Libya. However, this involvement has become mired in struggles that expose the challenges of a system that some regard as simply another expression of a profoundly undemocratic international order.
