Model International Criminal Court (MICC) is a simulation of the International Criminal Court for high school and university students from all over Europe, Israel, Palestine and the US.
MICC encourages students to and guides them in the study and work of human rights and humanitarian law. It does so by combining a set of training sessions, discussions and workshops with an internationally set up simulation of the ICC. MICC also fosters intercultural dialogue and understanding among students of various national and cultural backgrounds.
MICC School
MICC School is targeted at high school students. It takes place twice a year in Krzyzowa, Poland and brings together young people from Germany, Poland and alternating one third country. During the project the students explore their roles as prosecutors, members of the defence, judges or members of the observing media in trinational teams.
Subject to the simulation are final pleadings of historic cases that were heard before the international tribunals, namely the Nuremberg Tribunal, the ICTY and the ICTR.
The simulation is imbedded into a series of workshops and trainings dealing with the historical background of the cases, the idea of human rights and their protection, legal argumentation and rhetorical advices as preparation for the simulation.
The aim of MICC School is on the one hand to raise awareness for human rights and educate students about methods of their protection. On the other hand MICC sets a strong focus on the international youth meeting character of the project to foster for intercultural dialogue and understanding.
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MICC University
MICC University once a year invites university students from all over the world to Krzyzowa. The simulation for these students is based on a fictional case dealing with current dilemmas of the international criminal law.
The core of the project is the simulation itself. But MICC is more. For five days, students get the opportunity to learn, train and discuss the issues surrounding the case at hand with trainers, professors and other professionals in the field. All this happens in an international environment.
Prior to the project in Krzyzowa, the organisers offer preparatory seminars in different parts of Europe to enable students, who wish to participate in MICC but do not have the academic recourses for preparation, to take part in the project successfully.
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Organisers and Funding
MICC is jointly organised by the German Kreisau-Initiative Berlin and the Polish Krzyzowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Both organisations conduct projects in the field of political education, holding up the spirit of resistance against the Nazi-Regime and therefore especially committed the education in the field of human rights. Kreisau was the meeting place of the Kreisau Circle, an important resistance group during World War II.
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The project is generously funded by the German Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and the EU Programme "Youth in Action"
