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Author Gissel, Line, author

Title The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes in Africa : Judicialising Peace
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
Contents Cover; Half Title; Contributor; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Timelines of the Uganda and Kenya cases; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction: International justice and the problem of peace; 2 Studying ICC involvement: An analytical framework; 3 ICC involvement in the Juba Peace Talks; 4 Narratives, justice and the return to war; 5 ICC involvement in the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation; 6 Political authority, justice and power-sharing; 7 Impact of ICC involvement in Uganda and Kenya: A comparison
Summary "The book investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) affects efforts to negotiate peace. It offers an interpretive account of how peace negotiators and mediators in two peace processes in Uganda and Kenya sought to navigate and understand the new terrain of international justice, while also tracing how and why international decision-making processes interfered with the negotiations, narrated the conflicts, and insisted on a narrow scope of justice. Building on this interpretive analysis, a comparative analysis of peace processes in Uganda, Kenya and Colombia explores a set of general features pertaining to the judicialisation of peace. Line Engbo Gissel argues that the level and timing of ICC involvement is key to the ICC's impact on peace processes and explains why this is the case: A high level of ICC involvement during the negotiation phase of a peace process delegates politico-legal and discursive authority away from peace process actors, while a low level of ICC involvement during the negotiation phase retains such forms of authority at the level of the peace process. As politico-legal authority enables the resolution of sticking points and discursive authority constructs the conflict and its resolution, the location of authority is important for the peace process. Furthermore, judicialisation also affects the negotiation and implementation of a justice policy, with a narrowing scope for justice accompanying increasing levels of ICC involvement."--Provided by publisher
Subject International Criminal Court.
SUBJECT International Criminal Court fast
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Africa -- International cooperation
Peace-building -- Africa -- International cooperation
War crimes (International law)
War crime trials -- Africa
Criminal justice, Administration of -- International cooperation
Politics and government
War crime trials
War crimes (International law)
SUBJECT Kenya -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004004569
Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139293
Subject Africa
Kenya
Uganda
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315102382
1315102382