David Stoelting papers, 1994-2012

Stoelting attended numerous meetings at the United Nations in New York and at The Hague regarding the negotiations over the ICC, including the Preparatory Committee on the ICC (1995-1998), the Rome Diplomatic Conference on the ICC (July 1998), and the Preparatory Committee on the ICC (1998-2002). At these meetings, Stoelting gathered the official UN and ICC documents and reports, as well as reports from the many NGOs involved with the creation of the ICC and international justice issues (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Int'l, Coalition for the ICC, etc.).

Stoelting also drafted reports and recommendations on the ICC for the ABA and the NYCBA, and there are drafts of these reports as well as emails and faxes with comments. During these years Stoelting took part in the internal deliberations within the ABA and the ABCNY as those organizations debated positions on the ICC.

Stoelting was also a frequent speaker and author on ICC and international justice issues. Book: The Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Documentary History, compiled by M. Cherif Bassiouni.

Stoelting was involved as Vice President and other leadership positions with the International Criminal Bar (ICB), a global organization of lawyers intended to advance the interests of defense counsel and defendants at the ICC and other international criminal tribunals.

The ICB drafted a proposed Rules of Evidence and Procedure for the ICC, and also conducted trainings.

After 9/11, Stoelting became involved via the ABA and the NYCBA with several committees and a special task force examining the war on terror and military commissions.

Documents collected during a Summer 1983 Fulbright- funded trip to Cameroon, West Africa, including studies and reports on agriculture and the economy of Cameroon. Additional documents were gathered in Djibouti, East Africa, during a State Department internship in Summer 1988, including unclassified cables and materials on Djibouti.

Research on politics and language policy in Cameroon and Somalia conducted during graduate studies in 1982-1984.

Documents collected by Stoelting in the 1990s and early 2000s on the ad hoc Rwanda and Yugoslavia international criminal tribunals.

Books obtained by Stoelting in Africa in the 1980s: A History of the Western Grassfields by Paul Nkwi (1982); ABBIA (1983 Cameroon cultural review); Know Your Country, Know Cameroon (1982); Cameroon Today by Anne Debel (1981); University of Yaounde Yearbook (1982); Tourism in Cameroon; Republique de Djibouti.

Announcements and publicity regarding speaking engagements and panels by Stoelting, and a copy of his 1984 M.A. Thesis ("The Political Context of Language Policies in Cameroon and Somalia")

Research materials from the 80s and 90s on various international law and human rights topics, including the press packet from the 1981Ottawa Summit attended by President Reagan.