SUPERIOR RESPONSIBILITY
SUPERIOR RESPONSIBILITY

Summary/Abstract: International law imposes individual criminal liability upon those who commit international crimes. Such liability is normally direct, i.e. focused on the personal conduct of the actual perpetrators. An individual is prosecuted for the active and direct commission of a crime (i.e. principal perpetrator) or for a crime committed by others if he instigated, ordered, planned or assisted the commission of that crime (i.e. aider or abettor). International crimes, however, are often committed during armed conflicts or other unstable situations being a component of large scale atrocities that involve many different per petrators on various levels.

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