Q3 – What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?

. . . Carine Bapita, legal representative for victims at the ICC.

** I’m twittering the hearing at: http://twitter.com/bechamilton for those who can’t catch the live webcast**

I’ve spent the morning going over the 1999 Report of the UN Secretary General on the Fall of Srebrenica.

What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?

FYI – I’ve just posted a comment Eric Reeves sent through: “Reply to Pronk’s UNMIS/UNAMID “switch-out” deployment plan”  You can read it in the comments below the Pronk podcast.

Below I’ve (belatedly) written up some of the notes I took while attending Abu Garda’s first appearance before the ICC last week:

In the final section of this series, advocates respond to the question:

What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?