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The Justice Laboratory
International Law in Africa
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2023
Summary
Examining how international criminal law hasand hasn'tbrought justice following war crimes in Africa
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. These efforts have established universally recognized norms and have resulted in several high-profile convictions in egregious cases. But international criminal justice now seems to be a declining forceits energy sapped by long delays in prosecutions, lagging public attention, and a globally rising authoritarianism that disregards legal niceties.
This book reviews five examples of international criminal justice as they have been applied across Africa, where brutal civil conflicts in recent decades resulted in varying degrees of global attention and action. The first three chapters examine key international mechanisms: the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the hybrid tribunal established in Senegal to try state crimes committed in Chad. These chapters illustrate how the design and practice of the institutions led to similarly unexpected and unsatisfying outcomes.
The final two chapters examine emerging and proposed international criminal justice mechanisms. One is a tribunal intended to facilitate peace in the new but war-torn country of South Sudan, not yet operational and unlikely to perform better than its predecessors. Finally, the book considers the developing human rights practice of the little-studied East African Court, a regional commercial court in Arusha, Tanzania, to show how local judicial creativity can win a role for courts in facilitating good governance.
Written in an accessible style, this book explores the connections between politics and the doctrine of international criminal law. Highlighting little-known institutional examples and under-discussed political situations, the book contributes to a broader international understanding of African politics and international criminal justice, as well as the lessons the African experiences offer for other regions.
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Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3813-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3814-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
backcover1
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Preface No access Pages i - xiv
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Losing the Battle for Hearts and Minds at the International Criminal Court No access Pages 15 - 42
Rejecting Liberalism in Post-Genocide Rwanda No access Pages 43 - 60
"Hybrid Justice" and the Trial of a Chadian Dictator No access Pages 61 - 78
Courts for Peace: The Proposed Hybrid Court for South Sudan No access Pages 79 - 98
The Experimental Jurisprudence of the East African Court of Justice No access Pages 99 - 114
Changing How the West Thinks about Africa No access Pages 115 - 122
