the cost of international criminal tribunal (ICTR, ICTY, SCSL, ECCC, and ICC)
as of 2010, $4.7 B
He threw out a question: international criminal tribunals worth the money?
I responded: what else can we do? R2P -- military intervention -- is too intrusive. Diplomatic resolution, e.g., under Ch. 6 of the UN Charter is toothless. International criminal tribunal is the only viable option available to international community. He tried to pose a question of what we could get out of the money (or the efforts) -- cost-benefit analysis. I would point out opportunity cost.
After presentation, I asked a question on the ECCC: why the UN does not really step in to fix the governmental intervention in the ECCC. I prefer to see UNSG condemning and accusing Cambodian government of crippling independence of the ECCC.
He responded by saying that unless pulling out of Cambodia, the UN should be cooperative with the Cambodian government, rather than confrontational.
