Global Kids' Online Leadership Program

Our friends at SLCN.tv provided some great coverage of the launch of the International Justice Center yesterday, featuring a dynamic dialogue between the ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and former foreign minister of Canada Lloyd Axworthy. The ICC Prosecutor and Mr. Axworthy touched on a number of key global justice concerns, discussing how to balance peace negotiations and criminal investigations, building political will around the world, and connecting national, regional and international justice efforts.

While addressing questions from the virtual audience, the ICC prosecutor posed his own question to Second Life residents:

I'm intrigued with this idea of Second Life. I have no idea if this could be a system with which we could mobilize better people. But I would like to receive your comments on how you believe we can use this system to improve understanding of this idea and mobilize people, to mobilize resources in the world to protect those who have nothing... This could be a very interesting tool. You have ideas how we can use this new tool?

Later Lloyd Axworthy mused about one possible use of the Center as a place for transnational organizing:

It could be an interesting project of the new International Justice Center to put together a strategy, a treaty, an arrangement, to act as an alternative model [to support global justice]. And use this incredible link where you can connect people across borders, where it is the common interest around these issues. Then you can start percolating the change into national systems. From there you can start to put pressure on the national legislatures and organize around major international events.

Thanks so much to SLCN.tv, and particularly SLCN producer Starr Sonic, for your help making the launch of the IJC a success!