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The Justice Laboratory - International Law in Africa (Paperback)
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Examining how international criminal law has-and hasn't-brought
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 force - its 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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