Conclusion: The Design, Function, and Evaluation of Hybrid Courts

This conclusion draws the chapters into conversation around the design, function, and evaluation of hybrid mechanisms, highlighting the most important findings of the authors. It draws on the Dakar Guidelines on the Establishment of Hybrid Courts to knit together the implications of these for the practical tasks of establishing and operating hybrid mechanisms. It considers what needs to be learned from the book’s chapters by those working in hybrid courts operating now and those likely to be established in the future, and discusses the possible future of hybrid justice in response to the wide-scale commission of war crimes in Ukraine from 2022 and Gaza from 2023.