Contested justice : the politics and practice of International Criminal Court interventions /

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Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:xx, 504 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10492711
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Other authors / contributors:De Vos, Christian M. editor.
Kendall, Sara, editor.
Stahn, Carsten, 1971- editor.
ISBN:9781107076532
1107076536
Notes:Includes papers presented at a conference "Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership" at The Hague in May 2011.--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This timely, perceptive book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the field of international criminal justice through focusing on a singular institution: the International Criminal Court (ICC). Drawing on a range of experience, empirical work, and normative theory, it seeks to come to grips with a remarkable development-the creation of a permanent, international court meant to adjudicate mass crimes-through assessing the ICC's work in practice, given now more than a decade of experience to explore"--
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Law's Shape and Place
  • 1. In whose name? The ICC and the search for constituency
  • 2. Justice civilisatrice?: the ICC, post-colonial theories and faces of 'the local'
  • 3. The global as local: the limits and possibilities of integrating international and transitional justice
  • 4. Bespoke transitional justice at the International Criminal Court
  • 5. A synthesis of community based justice and complementarity
  • Part II. Reception and Contestation
  • 6. In the shadow of Kwoyelo's trial: the ICC and complementarity in Uganda
  • 7. A story of missed opportunities: the role of the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • 8. The justice vanguard: Kenyan civil society and the pursuit of accountability
  • 9. 'They told us we would be part of history': reflections on the civil society intermediary experience in the Great Lakes region
  • Part III. Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion
  • 10. Challenges and limitations of outreach: from the ICTY to the ICC
  • 11. 'We ask for justice, you give us law': justice talk and the encapsulation of victims
  • 12. Refracted justice: the imagined victim and the International Criminal Court
  • 13. Reparations and the politics of recognition
  • 14. Beyond the restorative turn: the limits of legal humanitarianism
  • Part IV. Politics and Legal Pluralism
  • 15. All roads lead to Rome: implementation and domestic politics in Kenya and Uganda
  • 16. Applying and 'misapplying' the Rome Statute in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • 17. Beyond the 'shadow' of the ICC: struggles over control of the conflict narrative in Colombia
  • 18. Between justice and politics: the ICC's intervention in Libya
  • 19. Peace making, justice, and the ICC