International criminal tribunal
Definition
A judicial body established under international law to prosecute serious violations of international humanitarian law. The ICTY (1993) and the ICC (2002) have both relied on forensic archaeological evidence as part of their evidentiary record.
Related terms
- AGSA
- The Archaeology and Forensic Science Association, the UK professional body that formalised standards for casework, training, and peer review in forensic archaeology...
- EAAF
- The Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team), founded in 1984 to investigate disappearances during the military dictatorship. Widely regarded...
- Forensic anthropology
- The laboratory and scene-side discipline concerned with the analysis of skeletal and decomposed remains to establish biological profile, manner of death, trauma,...
- Forensic archaeology
- The application of archaeological field methods, including systematic search, controlled excavation, and single-context recording, to scenes that have a legal significance, whether...
- Scene manager
- The role a forensic archaeologist often takes in the field: responsible for the physical recovery strategy, the recording system, and the integrity...
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- History and Scope of Forensic ArchaeologyA judicial body established under international law to prosecute serious violations of international humanitarian law. The ICTY (1993) and the ICC (2002) have...