MICC WeB
Model International Criminal Court Western Balkans
Open Communication
Serbia
HERMES
Croatia
Western Balkans Network
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Model International Criminal Court is a successful Kreisau Initiative project that has been running for 17 years. The workshops in MICC are designed according to the needs of the young participants. Trainers apply methods of non-formal education which are participatory and learner-centered.
In 2013, the project Model International Criminal Court Western Balkans (hereafter: MICC WeB) was kicked off thanks to SHL Sozialer Tag funding support. The project encompassed recreating the successful Kreisau Initiative’s Model International Criminal Court project, in three countries in the Western Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
Learning from History
MICC simulates cases and verdicts related to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (Erdemović case), as well as verdicts from the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (Bikindi case) and the famous Nuremberg trials (Flick), which preceded the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
Even though the WeB stands for “Western Balkans”, we aimed to create a genuine web – a network, information exchange and the establishing of close personal connections between young people from the divided former Yugoslav countries.
MICC WeB aspired to reconnect the region, uniting youth by a set of common ideas about their present and future, and desire to process the past so that it no longer presents a burden and source of conflict. The MICC WeB project served as a safe opening of discussion on difficult subjects, in a non-confrontational way.
After a successful decade of existence, we are proud to announce that the MICCWeB program is going ‘home’ and reintegrating into the Model International Criminal Court educational program, implemented at the European level.
We are grateful to all the students, teachers, coordinators, trainers, donors and all friends of MICCWeB for their heartfelt participation, work and support. For everyone interested in their school participating in MICC, please turn to our Kreisau-Initiative e. V. colleagues at:
https://www.model-icc.org/
