As the International Criminal Court (ICC) nears its 20th year in operation, many international criminal law practitioners and scholars are asking: where is the ICC today in relation to its original promise to end impunity for the world’s worst crimes? Baked into that question are themes of the court’s distance and proximity, temporal and spatial, professional and existential. Where is the ICC located along the historic ‘arc of justice’ and how might we push it further along that path? How does the prosecutor’s refrain that the ICC is a ‘court of law’ that must keep away from political entanglements affect its interaction with domestic actors? What do practitioners and scholars mean when they encourage the ICC to ‘get closer’ to atrocity situations, whether through better communication, cooperation or in situ proceedings? These questions prompt reflection on the ICC’s distance from, and proximity to, the atrocity space through an analysis of three recent monographs on the ICC and Africa. Reviewing these contributions in law, political science and anthropology, this review essay gauges the multiple planes of distance and proximity on which international criminal law advocates operate. These planes turn out to play an important part in ordering global justice, particularly the spaces and subjects of atrocities as sites of anti-impunity work.

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无论您身在何处，近远近：国际刑法中的距离与接近

随着国际刑事法院 (ICC) 的运作接近 20 年，许多国际刑法从业者和学者都在问：国际刑事法院在其最初承诺结束对世界上最严重的罪行有罪不罚的情况下，如今在哪里？这个问题涉及到法院的距离和接近、时间和空间、专业和存在的主题。国际刑事法院位于历史悠久的“正义之弧”沿线的哪个位置，我们如何才能沿着这条道路进一步推动它？检察官说国际刑事法院是一个必须远离政治纠葛的“法院”，这对它与国内行为者的互动有何影响？实践者和学者在鼓励国际刑事法院“接近”暴行情况时意味着什么，无论是通过更好的沟通，合作还是现场程序？通过分析最近关于国际刑事法院和非洲的三部专着，这些问题促使人们反思国际刑事法院与暴行空间的距离和接近程度。这篇评论文章回顾了这些在法律、政治学和人类学方面的贡献，衡量了国际刑法倡导者所依据的距离和接近的多个平面。事实证明，这些平面在秩序全球正义方面发挥了重要作用，特别是作为反有罪不罚工作场所的暴行的空间和主题。这篇评论文章衡量了国际刑法倡导者所依据的距离和接近的多个平面。事实证明，这些平面在秩序全球正义方面发挥了重要作用，特别是作为反有罪不罚工作场所的暴行的空间和主题。这篇评论文章衡量了国际刑法倡导者所依据的距离和接近的多个平面。事实证明，这些平面在秩序全球正义方面发挥了重要作用，特别是作为反有罪不罚工作场所的暴行的空间和主题。