Researchers Pierce Clancy and Rania Haque are both candidates at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. They published a cross-post entitled “Putting the International Criminal Court’s Palestine Investigation into Context.” The research concluded that if the plight of the Palestinian people is to be meaningfully reduced through international justice and accountability mechanisms, whether at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or through universal jurisdiction, the root causes of Palestinian oppression must be addressed. Only treating symptoms of the wider displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people would constitute little more than “temporary band-aids” at the expense of urgently needed structural change. Ultimately, international criminal justice—while essential to challenging Israeli impunity—must be supplemented by sanctions and other effective coercive measures by third states to end the illegal situation imposed on the Palestinian people and to prevent the commission of further crimes in Palestine. For further details, click here