Overview
- Analyzes the post-election violence in Kenya from a legal point of view and extensively examines legal options for domestic criminal accountability
- Discusses both retributive (prosecutions) and restorative justice (mainly truth commission) mechanisms
- Deals extensively with legal-cum-political responses to the ICC intervention in Kenya
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Criminal Justice Series (ICJS, volume 2)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Roots of Ethnic Violence in Kenya
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Front Matter
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Post-Election Violence, Domestic Legal Options and Responses
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Front Matter
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International Responses
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Back Matter
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About this book
Since the historic Nuremberg Trial of 1945 an international customary law principle has developed that commission of a core crime under international law – war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and aggression – should not go unpunished.
History shows, that when in Africa such violations occurred, especially as a result of election disputes, national and regional actors, including the African Union, resorted to political rather than legal responses. However, when crimes against humanity were alleged to have been committed in Kenya during the 2007-2008 post-election violence, a promising road map for criminal accountability was agreed upon alongside a political solution.
In the spirit of this road map, the author analyzes the post-election violence in Kenya from a legal point of view. He extensively examines legal options for domestic criminal accountability and discusses both retributive (prosecutions) and restorative justice (mainly truth commission) mechanisms, being the main legal responses to the gross violations of human rights. Furthermore, he thoroughly investigates the Kenya situation before the ICC and the legal-cum-political responses to the ICC intervention in Kenya.
Practitioners and academics in the field of international criminal law and related disciplines, as well as political sciences and (legal) history will find in this book highly relevant information about alternative legal approaches of the fight against and punishment of crimes against humanity, as defined under the ICC Statute.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sosteness Francis Materu is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He obtained his Bachelors Laws Degree (LL.B) from the same University in 2008, a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) from the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) in 2010, and a Doctorate in Law from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in 2014. He is also a proud alumnus of the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Post-Election Violence in Kenya
Book Subtitle: Domestic and International Legal Responses
Authors: Sosteness Francis Materu
Series Title: International Criminal Justice Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-041-1
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-040-4Published: 18 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-041-1Published: 04 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2352-6718
Series E-ISSN: 2352-6726
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 275
Topics: International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict
