Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof und die Vereinten Nationen: Ein ungeklärtes Verhältnis. (German)

A quick look at the map reveals that the areas of concern to United Nations peacekeeping and the International Criminal Court (ICC) overlap to a large extent. While current peacekeeping missions are deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sudan, the Central African Republic and Chad, the ICC inter alia investigates crimes supposedly committed by the Ugandan rebel group LRA and the Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir. Naturally, the presence of both institutions in the region allows close cooperation. Such collaboration, however, also appears to be a source of concern and friction, the best examples being the highly debated Security Council resolution 1422(2002), de facto granting immunity from prosecution for members of peacekeeping operations, and the UN's refusal to grant judges access to confidential documents. Certainly, more transparency and clarity is needed to ameliorate the difficult and blurry relationship between these two institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die Demokratische Republik Kongo, Sudan, Uganda und die Zentralafrikanische Republik sind Staaten, in denen gegenwärtig sowohl die Vereinten Nationen mit Friedensmissionen als auch der Internationale Strafgerichtshof tätig sind. Oft kooperieren die UN und der Gerichtshof, doch ebenso oft kommt es zu Missverständnissen und Reibungsverlusten. Für eine gute Zusammenarbeit gilt es, bürokratische Hindernisse aus dem Weg zu räumen, Fehlet wie Moratorien auf Strafverfolgungen von Blauhelmen rückgängig zu machen und sich Klarheit über das Verhältnis beider Institutionen zu verschaffen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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