Includes bibliographical references and index.

V. 1. Introduction : bridge over troubled waters? -- pt. I. General reflections -- A positive approach to complementarity : the impact of the Office of the Prosecutor / Luis Moreno-Ocampo -- Justice and prevention / Juan E. M�endez -- Proactive complementarity : a Registrar's perspective and plans / Silvana Arbia and Giovanni Bassy -- pt. II. Origin and genesis of complementarity -- The genesis of complementarity / Mohamed M. El Zeidy -- Reflections on complementarity at the Rome Conference and beyond / Mauro Politi -- The rise and fall of complementarity / William A. Schabas -- pt. III. Analytical dimensions of complementarity -- Complementarity as global governance / Christoph Burchard -- Policy through complementarity : the atrocity trial as justice / Mark A. Drumbl -- Taking complementarity seriously / Carsten Stahn -- International criminal justice in the era of failed states : the ICC and the self-referral debate / Payam Akhavan -- The quest for constructive complementarity / Michael A. Newton -- Reframing positive complementarity / William W. Burke-White -- Too much of a good thing? : implementation and the uses of complementarity / Fr�ed�eric M�egret -- pt. IV. Interpretation and application -- The application of the principle of complementarity to the decision of where to open an investigation : the admissibility of 'situations' / H�ector Ol�asolo and Enrique Carnero-Rojo -- Situation and case : defining the parameters / Rod Rastan -- The inaction controversy : neglected words and new opportunities / Darryl Robinson -- The admissibility procedures / Jo Stigen -- The evolution of the ICC jurisprudence on admissibility / Ben Batros -- Interpretative gravity under the Rome Statute / Ignaz Stegmiller -- Complementarity and burden allocation / Megan A. Fairlie and Joseph Powderly -- V. 2. States' obligations to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of international crimes : the perspective of the European Court of Human Rights / Harmen van der Wilt -- The law and policy of complementarity in relation to 'criminal proceedings' carried out by non-state organized armed groups / Jann K. Kleffner -- Complementarity and the crime of aggression / Roger S. Clark -- Complementarity and the alternative forms of justice : a new test for ICC admissibility / Gregory S. Gordon -- Complementarity and 'reverse cooperation' / Federica Gioia -- In the hands of the state : implementing legislation and complementarity / Olympia Bekou -- pt. V. Complementarity in perspective -- Horizontal complementarity / Cedric Ryngaert -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ('ICTY') and the transfer of cases and materials to national judicial authorities : lesson in complementarity / David Tolbert and Aleksandar Konti�c -- Positive complementarity in practice : ICTY Rule 11 bis and the use of the tribunal's evidence in the Srebrenica Trials before the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber / Fidelma Donlon -- Complementarity of procedures : how to avoid reinventing the wheel / Tarik Abdulhak -- pt. VI. Complementarity in practice -- Making complementarity work : maximizing the limited role of the prosecutor / Paul F. Seils -- Positive complementarity in action / Christopher K. Hall -- Complementarity and the construction of national ability / Morten Bergsmo, Olympia Bekou and Annika Jones -- The Colombian peace process (Law 975 of 2005) and the ICC's principle of complementarity / Kai Ambos -- Darfur : complementarity as the drafters intended? / Robert Cryer -- Complementarity in Uganda : domestic diversity or international imposition? / Sarah Nouwen -- Courts, conflict and complementarity in Uganda / Marieke Wierda and Michael Otim -- Chasing cases : the ICC and the politics of state referral in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda / Phil Clark -- A problem, not a solution : complementarity in the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo / Marlies Glasius -- Complementarity and the impact of the Rome Statute and International Criminal Court in Kenya / Christine Alai and Njonjo Mue.

"This systematic, contextual and practice-oriented account of complementarity explores the background and historical expectations associated with complementarity, its interpretation in prosecutorial policy and judicial practice, its context (ad hoc tribunals, universal jurisdiction, R2P) and its impact in specific situations (Colombia, Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan and Kenya)"--Page 4 of cover.