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The New ICC Communications Guide: "And Justice for All: How to Talk about the ICC in the U.S." The Bush Administration’s opposition to the ICC is well known. For the past four years, the United States has refused to participate as an observer in the Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP), has instituted sanctions against countries that did not exempt all U.S. citizens and some foreign personnel from the Court’s jurisdiction, and has made it clear that the U.S. does not intend to cooperate with the Court. What is not clear is how the U.S. will choose to act now that the Court is up and running and investigating several cases in which the U.S. has interests. This is a critical time for proponents of the ICC to make their case. While it is unlikely that the U.S. will ratify the ICC’s Rome Statute (the treaty that established the ICC) in the near future, it will now start facing real and visible choices about how it deals with the ICC. To that end, the ICC Communications Guide was inspired by a shared sense among advocates of the ICC that a common strategy and approach to deal with the crippling polarization and lack of genuine debate about the Court in the U.S is needed. This Guide is intended to help ICC supporters understand how key American audiences perceive the ICC and how to best engage these audiences in a constructive dialogue about the Court. It provides a set of “key messages” that were developed through a collaborative process involving leading U.S. organizations working on the ICC and tested in focus groups and in-depth interviews with key audiences. + DOWNLOAD THE COMMUNICATIONS GUIDE (PDF) + TAKE ACTION |
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