NGO-Prosecutorial Complex in Universal Jurisdiction Cases: Structure and Consequences for Justice and Public Knowledge about Human Rights Violations

普遍管辖权案件中的非政府组织-检察复合体：正义的结构和后果以及公众对侵犯人权行为的了解

• 批准号: 2314061
• 负责人: Joachim Savelsberg
• 金额: $ 16.21万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NGO; Prosecutorial; Complex; Universal; Jurisdiction

The project will advance knowledge on the structure and functioning of networks formed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and prosecutorial agencies in criminal proceedings under universal jurisdiction (UJ). It will further show how these networks affect justice, court narratives, and public knowledge about massive violations of human rights. NGO-prosecutorial networks affect trials and knowledge about violations in two ways. They color charges and court proceedings by channeling evidence, witnesses, and private prosecutors—some constituted out of refugee populations—into trials. In addition, NGOs contribute to the spread of contextualized court narratives through trial observation and the publication of blogs and reports on websites. The nature of these causal processes will be explored. American interest in these experiences is substantial, especially considering the “Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act” that recently updated federal law to enable prosecution of alleged war criminals in the United States—regardless of the place of perpetration and the nationality of the perpetrator or the victim. During this project, graduate students will be trained, and knowledge gained will be incorporated into college and graduate instruction. Insights will be communicated through a public-facing paper, workshops with practitioners, and a symposium.The project builds on scholarship that examines how criminal trials shape knowledge about and collective memory of mass atrocity crimes. This body of research shows that trials often affect public perceptions and collective memories of such crimes, even while constrained by the institutional logic of criminal law with its focus on individuals, disinterest in structural contexts and the longue durée, limiting evidentiary rules, and guilty-not guilty binaries. The proposed research looks beyond the confines of judicial institutions to examine their network ties with civil society in the form of NGOs, domestically and across national boundaries: a transnational NGO-prosecutorial complex. The project will enhance knowledge at the intersection of the sociology of law, knowledge, collective memory, and inter-organizational networks. The research includes in-depth interviews with prosecutors, investigators, and NGO representatives, in several countries engaging in UJ proceedings. Interviews explore organizational goals, the structure of exchange networks between organizations and the content of exchanges. An analysis of court documents will trace how NGO agendas, input, and networks are reflected in trial narratives. Analyzing NGO blogs and reports will identify additional network ties and examine the transmission of court narratives to the public. The project will add to sociology of knowledge insights into the link between network structures and the production of legal truths and everyday knowledgeThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将增进对非政府组织（NGO）和立法机构在普遍管辖权（UJ）刑事诉讼中形成的网络的结构和运作的了解，并将进一步展示这些网络如何影响司法、法庭叙述和公众知识。非政府组织起诉网络通过将证据、证人和自诉人（其中一些由难民人口组成）影响审判和对侵犯人权行为的了解。非政府组织为传播做出了贡献通过审判观察以及在网站上发布博客和报告，我们将探讨美国对这些经历的兴趣，特别是考虑到最近更新的“战争罪受害者正义法案”。联邦法律允许在美国起诉被指控的战争罪犯——无论犯罪地点以及犯罪者或受害者的国籍。在该项目中，研究生将接受培训，所获得的知识将被纳入大学和研究生课程。见解。将通过面向公众的论文、与从业者举办的研讨会和研讨会进行交流。该项目建立在研究刑事审判如何塑造大规模暴行犯罪的知识和集体记忆的学术基础上。这项研究表明，审判往往会影响公众的看法。以及对此类犯罪的集体记忆，即使受到刑法的制度逻辑的限制，刑法以个人为中心，对结构背景和长期期限不感兴趣，限制证据规则，以及有罪与无罪二元论。拟议的研究超越了范围。司法部门在国内和跨国界以非政府组织的形式审查其与民间社会的网络联系：跨国非政府组织-检察综合体。该项目将增强法律社会学、知识、集体记忆和国际间的交叉点。 -组织网络。该研究包括对参与 UJ 诉讼的多个国家的检察官、调查人员和非政府组织代表进行深入访谈，探讨组织目标、组织之间的交流网络结构以及对法庭交流的内容。文件将追踪非政府组织如何议程、意见和网络都反映在审判叙述中，分析非政府组织博客和报告将确定额外的网络联系，并检查法庭叙述向公众的传播情况，该项目将增加对网络结构和网络之间联系的知识社会学洞察。法律真理和日常知识的产生该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。