Proceedings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) can form integral parts of encompassing transitional justice processes for addressing international crimes. Therefore, the ICC’s principle of complementarity is essential to determine whether justice must be served and by whom – states or the ICC. In April 2024, the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor published its first Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation, which reflects a broader evolution of victims’ roles in international law: from non-recognition to justice actors with numerous rights and an independent voice in proceedings. It emphasises strategic partnership and vigilance as tools for diminishing the impunity gap and bringing justice closer to victims. This chapter examines the policy through the lens of generations of victim participation. It concludes that structural changes at the ICC are necessary to maximise the policy’s potential for continuous meaningful victim participation at all stages of proceedings nationally, regionally, and internationally.

In the preceding chapters we have presented Basque data related to several syntactic phenomena and constructions, namely the divide between unergatives and unaccusatives, addition of dative arguments, the variation attested in psych predicates, the causative/inchoative alternation, the impersonal construction, and the morphological causative. In this chapter we intend to explain briefly some of the theoretical approaches that can be adopted in order to account for some of the data presented. Specifically, we will offer an introduction to the syntactic derivation that gives rise to the alternations and variation presented so far. In Sections 8.2 and 8.3 we will explore the syntactic building blocks of verbs and the introduction of their arguments. In Section 8.4 the different types of Voice projections will be discussed. In Section 8.5 we will briefly mention implicit arguments and their (possible) semantic and syntactic nature. In Section 8.6 Applicative projections will be considered. In Section 8.7 the Voice-over-Voice configuration will be explored in order to account for the morphological causative construction and, finally, in Section 8.8 the main conclusions will be presented.

Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, this chapter shows how women artists navigate the gendered complexities of working in the highly male-dominated occupation of electronic music production and performance. Using a feminist critical management studies lens and positioning the construction of subjectivity as a relational, and power-laden process, the discussion notes six subjectivities enacted by women producing and performing electronic music. (1) The Intersectional Artist (2) The Genderless Artist (3) Visible Woman: Invisible Artist (4) Shrinking Violets and Tough Cookies (5) One of the Boys and (6) Bringers of Divine Feminine Energy. The discussion addresses the impacts these subject positions have on women’s careers and concludes by showing how women’s collectives, despite representing an additional burden on those who organise them, are challenging the status quo by providing public and visible action through the ‘safety and strength in numbers’ of collective activism.

There has been a growing body of research examining the longitudinal course of couple relationships. In this chapter, our goal is to synthesize and critically evaluate the research on long-term couple relationships, highlighting what we have learned and the advances that have been made to earlier work, while being inclusive of a variety of methodological and analytical approaches. We discuss early studies on long-term relationships; research assessing the different pathways of development as well as the antecedents, correlates and outcomes of various patterns of change; and the crucial role of self-help advice and intervention/prevention programs for fostering long-term couple relationships. We argue that although there has been progress in this area, the research still lacks much-needed diversity, and we consider broader limitations and directions for future research.

Chile is a paradigmatic transitional justice case illustrating the sequencing, coexistence, and intermingling of the types of victim engagement that this book examines. This chapter traces active (co)-creation by relatives in the search for the Disappeared in dictatorial and post-dictatorship Chile. It outlines the gradual accretion of different forms of engagement: denunciation and resistance, legal activism and political lobbying, and protagonism in calling for, and calling forth, a new state policy response in the form of a National Search Plan, launched in 2023. Analysing relatives’ participation in design of the Search Plan meanwhile reveals divergent and changing views about the relative importance of trials, truth, recovery, and identification of those still disappeared. Overall, Chile’s trajectory shows how many now-familiar categories of transitional justice demands were originally hard won from below. It also suggests the state may at times be needed to mediate between contrasting or contradictory victims’ voices.

Chapter 2 uses historical perspectives on the Court to argue there is a close nexus between the Court’s foundational role of protecting the right-based conditions the democratic process and the threat of authoritarian populism. However, while this role was conceived as protecting against existential threats to democracy (the ‘alarm bell’ against totalitarian threats), the question remains whether the Court’s interpretive equipment is apt to tackle insidious threats to democracy, such as authoritarian populism.

This chapter looks at the way in which weather has and does affect us, specifically establishing weather as both a productive and destructive force, but also ultimately as an indifferent force. It covers some of the moral categories that go into our assessment of impacts. It also examines our efforts to quantify the impacts, as well at some of the less obvious qualitative shaping effects of weather. Specifically, it challenges the idea of “climate determinism” or “environmental determinism.” The upshot of this chapter is that weather isn't just an event-causing force but a force that affects us; and that inasmuch as it affects us, weather carries good and bad valences that we evaluate and build our lives around.

This chapter presents an analytic autoethnographic account of techno production within the Berlin electronic dance music scene. The discussion analyses the composition, production, and creative processes underpinning several commercially successful techno records: ‘Ellipse’, ‘Pulse Train’, and ‘Cognitive Resonance’. Observations of the production practice reveal several rhythmic principles underpinning techno music: sixteenth notes flow in uninterrupted ‘pulse trains’, kick drums articulate 4/4 beats; groupings in powers of two predominate; polymetricity enables non-binary groupings. Describing a process of integration in the global techno scene and its Berlin focal point, the chapter is written in the first person to show the author’s presence. Links are drawn between personal experience and rhythmic structures in techno music. Three insights emerge: pulse trains as central rhythmic structure of techno music; interiorising production techniques and immersing oneself in scene-specific aesthetic codes; and using embodied knowledge, gained through listening and dancing, is a significant component of producing techno.

As society continues to change, so, too, has the nature of social connections between people. This chapter, however, focuses on one relationship immutable: that people often maintain committed involvements with particular others. We begin by situating and defining relationship commitment within a modern social context. We review historical and current theoretical models of commitment, including coverage of hypothesized antecedents, emphasizing empirical findings on precursors of commitment since the last edition of the Handbook. We then turn to reviewing research on hypothesized consequences of commitment, again emphasizing empirical findings since the last edition. Recent research considering racial, ethnic, and cultural variations in commitment is also reviewed. We conclude the chapter by offering possible future directions for commitment research.