Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781108576260
Content:
There are a number of controversies surrounding the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa. Critics have charged it with neo-colonial meddling in African affairs, accusing it of undermining national sovereignty and domestic attempts to resolve armed conflict. Here, based on 650 interviews over 11 years, Phil Clark critically assesses the politics of the ICC in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing particularly on the Court's multi-level impact on national politics and the lives of everyday citizens. He explores the ICC's effects on peace negotiations, national elections, domestic judicial reform, amnesty processes, combatant demobilisation and community-level accountability and reconciliation. In attempting to distance itself from African conflict zones geographically, philosophically and procedurally, Clark also reveals that the ICC has become more politicised and damaging to African polities, requiring a substantial rethink of the approaches and ideas that underpin the ICC's practice of distant justice
Content:
Introduction: The warlord in the forecourt -- Court between two poles : conceptualising 'complementarity' and 'distance' -- Who pulls the strings? The ICC's relations with states -- In whose name? The ICC's relations with affected communities -- When courts collide : the ICC and domestic prosecutions -- Peace versus justice redux : the ICC, amnesties and peace negotiations -- The ICC and community-based responses to atrocity -- Continental patterns : assessing the ICC's impact in the remaining African situations -- Conclusion: Narrowing the distance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clark, Philip, 1979 - Distant justice Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108474092
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108463379
Language:
English
Keywords:
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
;
Demokratische Republik Kongo
;
Uganda
DOI:
10.1017/9781108576260
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