A Note on State Policy and Crimes Against Humanity
On 18 February 2010, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber II issued a Decision Requesting Clarification and Additional Information in the Situation in the Republic of Kenya....
View ArticleWhat the ICC Review Conference Can’t Fix
At a meeting with Africanist scholars in London in 2007, Luis Moreno-Ocampo faced tough questioning over why the ICC had decided to pursue only the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and ignore the Ugandan...
View ArticlePeace, Justice, and the International Criminal Court
The long-running debate about whether seeking justice for grave international crimes interferes with prospects for peace has intensified as the possibility of national leaders being brought to trial...
View ArticleInternational Criminal Justice and Non-Western Cultures
When signatories to the Rome Statute meet in Uganda later this year, one of the tasks confronting them will be to take stock of progress in international criminal justice (ICJ). ICJ has advanced in...
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Kenya: Post-Election Violence Addressed – Micro-Level Perspectives on...
David Backer, Joseph Lahouchuc, James Long*The necessity of transitional justice in Kenya and the merits of certain institutional mechanisms in particular have been vigorously debated in this forum, as...
View ArticleInternational Criminal Court in Africa: “alea jacta est”
African countries are critical actors for the International Criminal Court (ICC). While it is clear that Africa forms the largest bloc of ICC member states, and that this year’s review conference of...
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Kenya and Sudan make ICC Fight for Survival
Could Bashir and the Kenyan 6 bring the ICC down?By Dr. Godfrey M MusilaRipples have recently been caused by the a section of the Kenyan government seeking a deferral of the process of the...
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ICC and Kenya: time for cooperation? – By Sabine Hoehn
On 1st September the International Criminal Court will decided whether it opens trials against six Kenyan high ranking officials charged to be the most responsible for the 2007/8 post election...
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ICC and Kenya’s 2012 elections: ‘The Half Made Place’– By Dan Branch
Kenya is, according to the writer Billy Kahora, a ‘half-made place,’ a country of ‘parallel universes, parallel economies, parallel lives, futures and realities.’[i] One does need to look hard these...
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ICC and Kenya: ‘Ocampo’s Six’ an important hurdle for the International...
Today, the International Criminal Court’s began its “confirmation on charges” hearings for the Ocampo Six, and the conventional wisdom holds that the proceedings will be a major test for some of...
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