IJCentral: International Justice Central

I was recently present for a Q&A session following a screening of “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court” to a class of Jeannette K. Watson Fellows in New York.  It was an extremely rewarding and inspiring experience, because I really felt that our documentary was having an effect on an amazingly bright and engaged audience of young people who seem destined to become future leaders.  They were more informed than most audiences are about the International Criminal Court (ICC) and their questions went right to the heart of the issues.  ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has often said that the ICC is a court for the next and future generations, as they understand that we live in a globalized interconnected world that needs effective institutions to help build secure and peaceful societies. 

“The Reckoning” has also had a huge response from law students, as evidenced on the IJCentral Twitter feed and Facebook groups and the audience turnout at festival screenings, as well as campus screenings constantly being organized at Law Schools all over the world.  Recently our outreach partner Facing History and Ourselves hosted a 2-week workshop about how to teach “The Reckoning”, and over 600 educators from 70 countries participated, as well as Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo, Darfur activist Bec Hamilton, former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz, and former Legal Counsel to the U.S. State Department John Bellinger III.  The long term impact of all of these educators teaching successive classes of students about global rule of law will be huge and long-term.  We’ve now started a section of IJCentral called IJCentral Action Network, and we encourage you to join the global conversation about international justice.  And if you want to see some of the young people from every corner of the globe that are working at the ICC, check out this video we made titled Demons and Dreamers.