About 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 growing coalition is focusing itself on establishing liaisons at college and university campuses across the United States. Ambassador Scheffer, no longer in government service, recently joined the ISC-ICC as a charter member of the organization’s Advisory Board.

The ISC-ICC currently maintains a consistent presence at the Assembly of States’ Parties (ASP) meetings. The ASP is the governing body for the Court, and negotiations for the ASP have been held at the United Nations since the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court was entered into force on 1 July 2002. In the past, the ISC-ICC participated in the meetings of the Preparatory Commissions for the ICC, which were held at the United Nations following the Rome Conference.