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The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Criminal Justice in Africa

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is struggling at every level of its operations in Africa - in terms of its investigations, prosecutions, and relations with domestic governments, judiciaries and affected communities.
This raises key questions about whether, after 16 years of consistent shortcomings and mounting frustration even among some of its most ardent supporters, the Court can survive. The Court's conceptual and practical 'distance' from the places where crimes are committed greatly undermines its effectiveness and requires a major rethink about how international criminal justice is conducted, especially in the Global South. This presentation lays out the main arguments of my new book, Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics (Cambridge University Press), and draws on 20 months of fieldwork in central Africa and The Hague since 2006, including 650 interviews with ICC officials, domestic political, legal and civil society actors, and local communities.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Phil Clark
Payam Akhavan
Keywords
law
politics
transitional justice
justice
Africa
international criminal court
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 15/01/2019
Duration: 00:07:16

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