"This book seeks to assess impact of the ICC on the domestic legal systems, peace negotiations, and affected populations of Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya and Uganda. It concludes that the court has succeeded in bringing changes to the law, but has achieved far less in delivering justice for the victims"--

Marieke Wierda is a Dutch lawyer, and is currently Deputy Ambassador of The Netherlands to Yemen. She was educated in the UK and the US and specialized in international criminal law and transitional justice. She has worked with the Foreign Ministry, the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Center for Transitional Justice alongside extensive field experience.

1. A framework for assessing the impact of the ICC; 2. Systemic effect I: The flaws of complementarity; 3. Systemic effect II: Internalization of the Rome statute; 4. Transformative effect I: A paradigm shift in peace negotiations?; 5. Transformative effect II: Peace negotiations in the shadow of the ICC; 6. Societal impact I: Reparative effect for victims?; 7. Societal impact II: Demonstration effect in affected communities; 8. Conclusion: from law to justice; Annex A: Methodological note; Annex B: The current state of the international court.