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This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect
(R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in
Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27
December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst crisis since
independence. The 2007-08 post-election crisis in Kenya was among
the first situations in which there was an appeal to both the
responsibility to protect and a responsibility to prosecute.
Despite efforts to ensure compatibility between R2P and the ICC,
the two were far from coherent in this case, as the measures
designed to protect the population in Kenya undermined the efforts
to prosecute perpetrators. This book will highlight how the African
Union-sponsored mediation process effectively brought an end to
eight weeks of bloodshed, while simultaneously entrenching those
involved in orchestrating the violence. Having secured positions of
power, politicians bearing responsibility for the violence set out
to block prosecutions at both the domestic and international
levels, eventually leading the cases against them to unravel. As
this book will reveal, by utilising the machinery of the state as a
shield against prosecution, the Government of Kenya reverted to an
approach to sovereignty that both R2P and the ICC were specifically
designed to counteract. This book will be of interest to students
of the Responsibility to Protect, humanitarian intervention,
African politics, war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies
in general.
This book provides an account of how the responsibility to protect
(R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) were applied in
Kenya. In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27
December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst crisis since
independence. The 2007-08 post-election crisis in Kenya was among
the first situations in which there was an appeal to both the
responsibility to protect and a responsibility to prosecute.
Despite efforts to ensure compatibility between R2P and the ICC,
the two were far from coherent in this case, as the measures
designed to protect the population in Kenya undermined the efforts
to prosecute perpetrators. This book will highlight how the African
Union-sponsored mediation process effectively brought an end to
eight weeks of bloodshed, while simultaneously entrenching those
involved in orchestrating the violence. Having secured positions of
power, politicians bearing responsibility for the violence set out
to block prosecutions at both the domestic and international
levels, eventually leading the cases against them to unravel. As
this book will reveal, by utilising the machinery of the state as a
shield against prosecution, the Government of Kenya reverted to an
approach to sovereignty that both R2P and the ICC were specifically
designed to counteract. This book will be of interest to students
of the Responsibility to Protect, humanitarian intervention,
African politics, war and conflict studies and IR/Security Studies
in general.
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