1st Edition

Propaganda and International Criminal Law From Cognition to Criminality

By Predrag Dojčinović Copyright 2020
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book addresses the conceptual and evidentiary issues relating to the treatment of propaganda in international criminal law.





    Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of scholars, researchers and legal practitioners from Africa, Australia, Europe and the United States, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature, position and role of the concept of propaganda in mass atrocity crimes trials. A sequel to the earlier Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law: From Speakers’ Corner to War Crimes (Routledge, 2011) this book is the first to synthesize the knowledge, procedures and methods of international criminal law with the social cognitive sciences. Including a comprehensive overview of the most relevant case law, jurisprudence and scientific studies, the book also offers a series of practical insights and strategies for both academics and legal professionals.





    An invaluable resource for those working in the area of international criminal law, this book will also be of interest to academics, practitioners and students with relevant interests in legal theory, politics, linguistics and psychology.   



    CONTENTS

    LIST OF FIGURES

    CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    ABBREVIATIONS

    TABLE OF CASES

    Predrag Dojcinovic

    INTRODUCTION

    PART I: LAW TO SCIENCE

    Chapter One

    Mohamed Elewa Badar and Polona Florijancic

    THE COGNITIVE AND LINGUISTIC IMPLICATIONS OF ISIS PROPAGANDA: PROVING THE CRIME OF DIRECT AND PUBLIC INCITEMENT TO COMMIT GENOCIDE

    Chapter Two

    Richard Ashby Wilson

    PROPAGANDA EXPERTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTROOM

    Chapter Three

    Gregory S. Gordon

    PUTTING THE OFFENSE OF ORDERING IN ORDER: TOWARD A THEORY OF INCHOATE LIABILITY

    Chapter Four

    Wibke K. Timmermann

    INTERNATIONAL SPEECH CRIMES FOLLOWING THE ŠEŠELJ APPEAL JUDGMENT

    Chapter Five

    Clare Lawson and Rogier Bartels

    Prosecuting Speech Acts: an examination of the trial of The Prosecutor v. William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang

    Chapter Six

    Molly K. Land and Rebecca J. Hamilton

    BEYOND TAKEDOWN: EXPANDING THE TOOLKIT FOR RESPONDING TO ONLINE HATE

    PART II: SCIENCE TO LAW

    Chapter Seven

    Robert J. Donia

    FROM CREATIVITY TO CONFLICT: SEMANTIC INNOVATION IN THE BOSNIAN SERB NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF THE 1990s

    Chapter Eight

    Predrag Dojcinovic

    IN THE MIND OF THE CRIME: PROVING THE MENS REA OF GENOCIDAL INTENT IN THE WORDS OF RATKO MLADIC AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE JOINT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

    Chapter Nine

    Celia Guillard and Lasana T. Harris

    THE NEUROSCIENCE OF DEHUMANIZATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE

    Chapter Ten

    Jordan Kiper

    HOW DANGEROUS PROPAGANDA WORKS

    Chapter Eleven

    Évariste Ntakirutimana and Marie-Claire Uwamariya

    SONG AS A PROPAGANDA TOOL IN THE GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA

    Chapter Twelve

    Saskia Baas

    SPEAKING THE UNSPOKEN: SYRIAN PROPAGANDA, INCITEMENT AND MASS VIOLENCE IN RESPONSE TO THE 2011 PROTESTS

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX

    Biography

    Predrag Dojčinović worked for the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1998 to 2017. He was the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut in 2014, and is currently a research affiliate and adjunct professor at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut.