Self-Referrals and Lack of Transparency at the ICC – The Case of Northern Uganda
Press conference during the Rome Conference at which the ICC Statute was adopted Nobody could know for certain how the International Criminal Court would work in practice when the Rome Statute was...
View ArticleThe Lack of Context in Discussions of Justice in Conflicts
One of the faces of international criminal justice in 2011, the late Libyan dictator Gaddafi who was indicted by the ICC International criminal law and transitional justice are highly dynamic fields....
View ArticleKony 2012 – How 100 Million Clicks Went to Waste
Photo by Invisible Children The Kony 2012 video produced by Invisible Children has attracted somewhere between 80 and 100 million views by now. No matter what your position on the campaign is, it is...
View ArticleHunting Kony – An Update on the US Deployment in Central Africa
US and Ugandan troops in formation during a training exercise In May 2010, the United States Government started officially taking more interest in the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict that had ravaged...
View ArticleA Genocide in Northern Uganda? – The ‘Protected Camps’ Policy of 1999 to 2006
One of the 'protected camps' that were established during the LRA conflict in northern Uganda (Photo: http://joshuadysart.com) The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict effectively ended for northern...
View ArticleWhere to With Transitional Justice in Uganda? The Situation After the...
Many northern Ugandans hope LRA fighters will take amnesty and return to undergo traditional reconciliation rituals like Mato Oput shown in the foto (JRP) Regular readers of this blog are aware that...
View ArticleDefying Gravity: Seeking Political Balance in ICC Prosecutions
Reuters The International Criminal Court is often accused of being “political” or “politicized” in its selection of situations and cases. What has become most problematic for the Court’s credibility...
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