Constructing a Sensory Alternative to the Ongwen Judgment

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW
Raghavi Viswanath, Fangyi Li
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Abstract

Much ink has been spilt criticising the icc’s Ongwen trial judgment for its failure to grasp the cultural context in which the accused Ongwen and the Acholi community were embedded. Some scholars blame this on the poor quality of translation services, others attribute it to the ‘binarism’ of judgments. We offer another explanation for the Ongwen judgment’s deficiencies: its purely textual format. The judgment shows that the continued preference for textual judgments in international criminal law sterilises victims’ experiences, decontextualises evidence, and muffles objectivity. This ties into the historical preference for text over senses, a colonially engineered decision aimed at suppressing non-Western epistemologies. In this paper, we call for the international criminal law judgment to embrace ‘the opportunities of the wider sensory field’. Drawing on the pervasive sensory dimensions of international criminal law, we argue that a sensory reimagination of judgments would better serve international criminal law’s affective potential by empowering survivors and achieving a more reparative and reconstructive justice.
建构“翁文审判”的感官替代
很多人批评国际刑事法院对翁文一案的判决未能把握被告翁文和阿乔利社区所处的文化背景。一些学者将其归咎于翻译服务质量差,另一些学者将其归咎于判断的“二元论”。我们对翁文判决书的缺陷提供了另一种解释:它的纯文本格式。该判决表明,国际刑法中对文本判决的持续偏好抹杀了受害者的经验,使证据脱离语境,并掩盖了客观性。这与历史上对文本的偏好有关,这是殖民地设计的决定,旨在压制非西方认识论。在这篇文章中,我们呼吁国际刑法审判应拥抱“更广阔的感官领域的机会”。根据国际刑法普遍存在的感官维度,我们认为,通过赋予幸存者权力和实现更具补偿性和重建性的司法,对判决进行感官重新想象将更好地服务于国际刑法的情感潜力。
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期刊介绍: Thus there is also a need for criminological, sociological and historical research on the issues of ICL. The Review publishes in-depth analytical research that deals with these issues. The analysis may cover: • the substantive and procedural law on the international level; • important cases from national jurisdictions which have a bearing on general issues; • criminological and sociological; and, • historical research.
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