Video Interface Pilot Development Project for the Virtual Tribunal

David Cohen
Classics
UC Berkeley

The core idea of the Virtual Tribunal was to expand the conventional notion of the archive for International Criminal Tribunals into a powerful educational legacy tool, accessible to local citizens, schools, and universities as well as international audiences and posterity. It brought cutting-edge information technology to bear on what has previously been conceived as a largely archival function of preserving the documentary record of ad hoc courts and tribunals. Through its unique integration of archival materials, videos of the trials, photographs, films, hundreds of hours of interviews with trial participants and ordinary citizens, newspaper accounts, expert commentary and analysis by scholars, the Virtual Tribunal brought to life the historical record of international criminal justice institutions. Support for the Virtual Tribunal, in part, was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Hoover Library and Archive.