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Organization of ISC-ICC The Independent Student Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ISC-ICC) is the only nationwide non-profit, non-governmental student organization in the United States working solely to educate the American public about the International Criminal Court (ICC). While we are members of the Washington Working Group for the ICC (WICC), the American NGO Coalition for the ICC (AMICC), and the International NGO Coalition for the ICC (CICC), we remain an independent organization pursuing our own activities. The membership of the ISC-ICC is open to undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and law school students at colleges and universities across the United States, as well as young professionals. The primary functions of the ISC-ICC are to raise American public awareness of the ICC through academia and scholarship, to dispel myths about the Court circulated by its critics, and to ensure eventual US cooperation with and participation in the workings of the Court. The ISC-ICC, as an institution, takes no position on issues aside from the International Criminal Court. We believe that American foreign policy is best served by active American participation in the International Criminal Court. The ISC-ICC firmly maintains that US sovereignty will not be compromised by American ratification of the Rome Statute. On the contrary, the United States, in playing an active role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, will be able to shape the Court to meet its policy goals without sacrificing American commitments to international security. By engaging in these negotiations, the US has a unique opportunity to serve as a model for justice worldwide. Background The ISC-ICC was founded by President Christina Hartman in Washington, DC in November 2000 as part of a successful effort to secure then-President Clinton's signature to the Rome Statute. Irina Kebreau, Mohammed Rahman, William Lim, Elizabeth Trottier, Anna N. Astvatsaturova, Esti Tambay and Linda Rampertab were recruited soon afterward to serve on the Coalition's Executive Board. After 31 December 2000, when Ambassador David Scheffer signed the Rome Statute for the US, the ISC-ICC refocused its mission toward grassroots efforts and public education. The growing coalition is focusing itself on establishing liaisons at college and university campuses across the United States. Ambassador Scheffer, no longer in government service, joined the ISC-ICC as a charter member of the organization's Advisory Board in 2002. One of the major activities that the ISC-ICC offers to its members is an opportunity to attend, as NGO representatives, meetings of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP). The Coalition is inviting students to apply for all 2003 sessions of the ASP held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The application is available here. ISC-ICC also has educational and legal research projects in the following subject areas: Criminal Prosecution, Criminal Defense, Victims’ Rights, Children and the ICC, Implementation, International Justice, and US/ICC Relations. ISC-ICC is a member of the Steering Committee of AMICC and USAforICC.org. ISC-ICC is also a member of WICC and CICC. ISC-ICC is accredited to attend meetings of the ICC Assembly of States Parties as well as meetings of the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Law. ISC-ICC is incorporated in the state of New York and is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).
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