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20 years on, the International Criminal Court is doing more good than its critics claim

13th July 2022

Dr Matt Killingsworth, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania

OPINION: The International Criminal Court (ICC) was set up during a unique period of global co-operation, but has faced criticism for its failure to hold the US and other major powers to account; however, Dr Matt Killingsworth, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania, believes the ICC has played a valuable role in creating expectations that global justice can be realised.

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Dr Matt Killingsworth
Senior Lecturer, International Relations

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Dr Matt Killingsworth is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. He is the co-author of Violence and the State (2015), author of Civil Society in Communist Eastern Europe: Opposition and Dissent in Totalitarian Regimes (2012), and numerous articles on the laws of war, the changing nature of war and post-Communist justice (lustration) in Poland and Czechoslovakia. In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and in 2014 was the recipient of a US Department of State ‘Study of US Institutes for Scholars’ grant. He is the Chair of the Tasmanian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee and he is a regular contributor to local and national media.