Overview
- Examines some of the controversies around the involvement of international justice mechanisms in conflict and post-conflict situations
- Asks which aspects of the work of international justice mechanisms promote which aspects of the peace process
- Draws on on qualitative research conducted in Nigeria, C?te d’ Ivoire, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda to provide a comparative analysis
- Appeals to those interested in post-conflict reconstruction, transitional justice, peace studies, conflict transformation, and international criminal law
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- criminal law
- humanitarian law
- post-conflict
- conflict in Africa
- victims’ rights
- reconciliation
- the ICC
- international justice
- criminal justice
- victimology
- transitional justice
- post-election violence
- human rights
- humanitarian intervention
- law and accountability
- Post- Conflict Reconstruction
- Conflict Transformation
About this book
This book explores the extent to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has influenced peace processes in Cȏte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda. It examines how the prosecution of those who bear the greatest responsibility for crimes committed in these countries may have negatively or positively influenced the process of making peace in their wake. It is concerned with how international accountability affects post-conflict countries and what the ICC brings to peace processes. The central question addressed by the book is whether justice spurs peace in post- conflict societies or whether justice complicates the peace process. If so, how?
Relying on qualitative studies in these countries, this book comparatively analyses the impact of the interventions of the ICC in Uganda (2004), Kenya (after the 2007/2008 post-election violence), and Cȏte d’Ivoire. Its aim is to provide an evidence-based account of how the involvement of the ICC in these countries influences the processes of promoting peace. To gauge this, Malu develops an analytical framework which is based on four variables: deterrence, victims’ rights, reconciliation and accountability to the law. This book will appeal to those interested in post-conflict reconstruction, transitional justice, peace studies, conflict transformation, and international criminal law, including peace practitioners and those working in the field of international justice.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Linus Nnabuike Malu is Head of the Legal Department and Access to Justice Manager (Malawi) for the Church of Scotland. He worked for several years as a legal practitioner and Project Coordinator of the Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG). Linus has an MA in International Law and the Settlement of Disputes from the University for Peace, Costa Rica, and a PhD from the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Media Law and Policy in Nigeria, Malthouse Law Books, 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes
Book Subtitle: Cȏte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda
Authors: Linus Nnabuike Malu
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19905-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19904-3Published: 18 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19907-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19905-0Published: 31 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights and Crime , Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Victimology