Interesting exchange between the BBC’s Edward Stourton and former Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone during Stourton’s “United Nations – or not?” series in 2003.
“Making a link between the idea of justice and the idea of peace and security?”
EDWARD STOURTON:
“It’s interesting, you said, that the court was – the courts were established under chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter which is really about peace and security not about justice. Was that sort of creative law making – making a link between the idea of justice and the idea of peace and security that was established at the time that the Yugoslavia and Rwanda courts were set up?”
RICHARD GOLDSTONE:
“It was indeed and for that reason it came as a huge surprise to international humanitarian lawyers that a first ever international criminal court would come from the Security Council and not from a treaty.”