Distant Justice
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Distant Justice

The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics

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eBook - PDF

Distant Justice

The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics

About this book

There are a number of controversies surrounding the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa. Critics have charged it with neo-colonial meddling in African affairs, accusing it of undermining national sovereignty and domestic attempts to resolve armed conflict. Here, based on 650 interviews over 11 years, Phil Clark critically assesses the politics of the ICC in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing particularly on the Court's multi-level impact on national politics and the lives of everyday citizens. He explores the ICC's effects on peace negotiations, national elections, domestic judicial reform, amnesty processes, combatant demobilisation and community-level accountability and reconciliation. In attempting to distance itself from African conflict zones geographically, philosophically and procedurally, Clark also reveals that the ICC has become more politicised and damaging to African polities, requiring a substantial rethink of the approaches and ideas that underpin the ICC's practice of distant justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Half-title
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright information
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Map
  8. 1 Introduction: The Warlord in the Forecourt
  9. 2 Court between Two Poles: Conceptualising 'Complementarity' and 'Distance'
  10. 3 Who Pulls the Strings?: The ICC's Relations with States
  11. 4 In Whose Name?: The ICC's Relations with Affected Communities
  12. 5 When Courts Collide:The ICC and Domestic Prosecutions
  13. 6 Peace versus Justice Redux: The ICC, Amnesties and Peace Negotiations
  14. 7 The ICC and Community-Based Responses to Atrocity
  15. 8 Continental Patterns: Assessing the ICC's Impact in the Remaining African Situations
  16. 9 Conclusion: Narrowing the Distance
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index