Accomplishments, shortcomings and challenges: evaluation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Abstract
This thesis assessed the effectiveness of the Special Court in relation to the impact is has made in cultivating the rudiments of a human rights culture, dispensing justice, ending a culture of impunity, effecting unity and national reconciliation in post war Sierra Leone.
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