Families’ Needs and Tribunal Investigations
Definition
Stover and Shigekane’s 2002 analysis of tensions between identifying missing people for families and collecting evidence for criminal proceedings. It should not be described as an ordered four-part “Stover–Ryan” framework.
Related terms
- Desaparecidos
- People subjected to enforced disappearance during Argentina’s state repression. The frequently cited 30,000 is an estimate, distinct from the initially documented CONADEP...
- EAAF (Equipo Argentino De Antropologia Forense)
- The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, formed in 1984 by Argentine scientists trained by Clyde Snow. Its multidisciplinary investigations combine background research, recovery...
- ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
- A hybrid Cambodian tribunal established through national legislation and a UN–Cambodia agreement, with operations beginning in 2006, addressing crimes within its 1975–1979...
- ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons)
- An international missing-persons organisation whose DNA-led work contributes to identification and reassociation. ICMP’s dated Srebrenica summaries distinguish DNA identifications, other identifications and...
- ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
- The United Nations ad hoc tribunal established in November 1994 to prosecute the organisers of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Operated from Arusha,...
- ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia)
- The United Nations ad hoc tribunal established in 1993 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in the former...
- Perimortem Trauma
- Skeletal trauma interpreted in relation to death, often using fracture behaviour of moist or fresh bone and contextual evidence. Fresh-bone characteristics can...
- Primary and Secondary Graves
- A primary grave is an original burial context; a secondary grave contains remains moved from an earlier location. Further movement can create...