JiC on FB!
To keep the site going, please consider donating.
Follow Justice in Conflict on Twitter!
- RT @markmackinnon: Worrying “urgent statement” that resembles Russian claims that Syrian rebels were about to use chemical weapons - just b… 2 hours ago
- Pretoria botanical gardens. 🌸 🌴 https://t.co/CLg2MXUVqM 2 hours ago
- As Ryan notes: "The Office of the Prosecutor is not the only division of the ICC needing an injection of funds. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
- I agree w Prosecutor Khan, @rgoodlaw others that funding earmarked for #ICC investigations is wrong and should not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
- RT @HannaLiubakova: #Ukraine Mariupol. This pain is unbearable. A man cries while sitting by the road in the middle of a completely ruined… 15 hours ago
Blogroll
- A Contario
- Aidnography
- Communis Hostis Omnium
- Diane Marie Amann
- EJIL: Talk!
- Global Memo
- Global Transitional Justice
- Harry M. Rhea's International Criminal Justice Blog
- IFAIR
- International Justice – RNW
- International Justice Central
- IntLawGrrls
- Law and Security Strategy
- Lawyers for Justice in Libya
- LieberCode
- Making Sense of Sudan
- Notts Law PhD
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- Opinio Juris
- Peter Quayle
- PhD Studies in Human Rights
- Re-Thinking International Criminal Justice in Africa
- Rob Crilly
- Securing Rights
- Spreading the Jam
- Texas in Africa
- The American Exception
- The Disorder of Things
- The Duck of Minerva
- The International Jurist
- The Lex Specialis
- The Multilateralist
- The Rights' Future
- Turtle Bay
- UN Dispatch
- War and Law
- Wired Danger Room
- Wronging Rights
Top Posts & Pages
- After all this time, why has Ukraine not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?
- Victims and Perpetrators: Reclaiming the victim narrative from Dominic Ongwen
- Peace versus Justice? On the Effects of the ICC on the War in Ukraine
- The moral and legal correctness of Dominic Ongwen’s conviction
- Something Good that Might Have Come from KONY2012
- Crimes against migrants and asylum seekers in Libya: Here’s how the ICC Has Jurisdiction
- Peace versus Justice, Round 10,000? Nah. Some Options for the International Criminal Court
- What an investigation into war crimes, crimes against humanity, and perhaps even genocide in Ukraine looks like
- The Justification of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine under International Law
- States that Neutered the Crime of Aggression have a Special Responsibility to Address War Crimes in Ukraine
Blog Stats
- 1,985,452 hits
Categories
- "Peace versus Justice" Debate
- #MeToo
- Academic Articles / Books
- Activism
- Ad hoc tribunals
- Admissibility
- Advocacy
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA)
- Africa-ICC Expert Panel
- African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African Union (AU)
- Ahmad Al Mahdi Al Faqi (Abou Tourab)
- Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud
- al-Shabaab
- Al-Tuhamy Mohamed Khaled
- Amnesty
- Apartheid
- Apologies
- Arab League
- Arab Spring
- Archives
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Arms Deals
- Arms Trade
- Article 16
- Article 98
- Asia
- Assembly of States Parties
- Asset Recovery
- Asylum-Seekers
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Balkans
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Bilateral Immunity Agreements
- Black Lives Matter
- Books and Publications
- Bosco Ntaganda
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burma/Myanmar
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Canadian Partnership of International Justice
- Central African Republic (CAR)
- Chad
- Chagos Islands
- Chambres Africaines Extraordinaires (CAE)
- Child Soldiers
- Chile
- China
- Climate Change
- Colombia
- Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)
- Commission of Inquiry
- Complementarity
- Conferences
- Conflict Resolution
- Coups
- Crime of Aggression
- Crimes against humanity
- Croatia
- Cultural Crimes
- Czech Republic
- Darfur
- Defendants
- Defense Counsel
- Deferral
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Deportation
- Deputy Prosecutor
- Deterrence
- Development
- Diplomatic Assurances
- Djibouti
- Dominic Ongwen ICC
- Donald Trump
- Donetsk
- Drones
- Ecocide
- Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS)
- Economics of Conflict
- Egypt
- Elections
- Enforced Disappearance
- Environment
- Eritrea
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Europe
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union (EU)
- Events
- Exile
- Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Famine
- FARC
- Fatou Bensouda
- FIFA
- Film
- France
- Funding
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gaza
- Gender
- Genocide
- Georgia
- Germain Katanga
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gravity
- Gregory Kersten
- Guantanamo Bay
- Guatemala
- Guest Posts
- Guinea Bissau
- Hissène Habré
- Historical Justice
- Holocaust
- Honduras
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Humour
- Hybrid Court for South Sudan
- Hybrid Courts
- Hybrid Justice Symposium
- Hybrid Tribunals
- ICC President
- ICC Prosecutor
- ICC Registry
- ICTY
- IDP
- Immigration
- Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM)
- Indigenous Peoples
- International and Organized Crimes Division of Kenya
- International Court of Justice
- International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- International Crimes Division (Uganda)
- International Criminal Court (ICC)
- International Criminal Justice
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Justice Ambassador
- International Justice Day
- International Law
- Interview
- Interviews
- Investigations
- Iran
- Iraq
- ISIS
- Islamic State
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire
- Ivory Coast and the ICC
- Jean-Pierre Bemba
- JiC News
- Jordan (not Michael)
- Journalism
- Judges
- Justice
- Justice in Conflict
- Kenya
- Kenya and the ICC
- Kimberly Process
- Kosovo
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
- Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution (KRSJI)
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers
- Kurdistan
- Kuwait
- Kwoyelo Trial
- Latin America
- Laurent Gbagbo
- Lawfare
- Lebanon
- Legacy
- Liberal Peace
- Liberia
- Libya
- Libya and International Justice Symposium
- Libya and the ICC
- Libyan National Army
- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
- Lugansk
- Luis Moreno-Ocampo
- Lustration
- Mahmoud al-Werfalli
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mass Atrocity Monday
- Mauritania
- Memorialization
- Middle East
- Migration
- Missing Persons
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- NATO
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Next ICC Prosecutor
- Next Prosecutor Symposium
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Ireland
- northern Uganda
- Norway
- Nuremberg
- Nuremberg Trials
- Ocampo Six
- Office of the Prosecutor
- Omar al-Bashir
- Osama bin Laden
- Osama bin Laden and international law
- Outreach
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Palestine and ICC Symposium
- Palestine and R2P Symposium
- Palestine and the ICC
- Paraguay
- Peace and Justice in Colombia Symposium
- Peace Negotiations
- Peace Processes
- Peacebuilding
- Peru
- Poland
- Policy Papers
- Politics of Memory
- Preliminary Examinations
- Qatar
- Ratko Mladic
- Refugees
- Reparations
- Responsibiltiy to Protect (R2P)
- Restorative Justice
- Rethinking Peace and Justice Symposium
- Rohingya
- Rome Statute
- Rome Statute ratifications
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Rwandan Genocide
- Sanctions
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sentencing
- Serbia
- Sexual and Gender Based Violence
- Sexual Violence
- Sierra Leone
- Simone Gbagbo
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Social Media
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South America
- South Ossetia
- South Sudan
- Southern Sudan
- Spain
- Special African Chamber (CAE)
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Special Court for SIerra Leone (SCSL)
- Special Criminal Court
- Special Jurisdiction for Peace
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Sport
- Sri Lanka
- Starvation
- Sudan
- Symposium
- Syria
- Taliban
- Tanzania
- Teaching Tools
- Terrorism
- The Gambia
- The ICC’s Impact on National Justice Symposium
- The Life and Trials of Dominic Ongwen: A JiC Symposium
- The Netherlands
- The Tripoli Three (Tripoli3)
- Thomas Dyilo Lubanga
- Thomas Lubanga
- Torture
- Traditional Justice Mechanisms
- Transitional Justice
- Transnational Criminal Law
- Transnational Organized Crime
- Trials in Absentia
- Trust Fund for Victims
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Truth Commission
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- UN Commission of Inquiry on Sri Lanka
- UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria
- UN General Assembly
- UN Security Council
- Uncategorized
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- United States
- Universal Jurisdiction
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican
- Venezuela
- Victim Participation
- Vladimir Putin
- War crimes
- Wayamo Foundation
- Witnesses
- Yahya Jammeh
- Yazidi Genocide
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Category Archives: African Union (AU)
What the ICC Can Do to Improve its Relationship with African States
Allegations that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is biased against ‘Africa’ are nothing new. They have persisted for nearly a decade now and have only achieved greater salience in the wake of the recent decisions of South Africa, Burundi, and … Continue reading
Ten African States Who Will Stick with the International Criminal Court
In the wake of South Africa’s, Burundi’s and The Gambia’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the focus of observers and commentators has been on who is next. Who will join the “queue” to leave the ICC? … Continue reading
Posted in Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA), African Union (AU), Botswana, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Gambia, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Justice, Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast and the ICC, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa
5 Comments
There is no system of international justice against Africa because there is no system of international justice
Following the twenty-seventh African Union summit, it seems brighter days may lie ahead for the tumultuous relationship between African states and the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the wake of the summit, which took place earlier this month in Kigali, … Continue reading
Cutting Through the Noise – The African Group for Justice and Accountability on the ICC-Africa Relationship
The relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and African states is coming under renewed scrutiny at the 27th African Union Summit, currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. The outcome of the summit for ICC-African relations will be determined over … Continue reading
A Way Forward: An Africa-ICC Expert Panel
In the world of international criminal justice, few issues have received as much attention as the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and African states and societies. While African constituencies were at the very forefront of pushing for, and … Continue reading
Sudan, South Africa and the future of the International Criminal Court in Africa
Many believe Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is the person most responsible for the alleged genocide in Darfur. As such, he isn’t supposed to travel freely around the world. But this past June, Bashir visited South Africa for an African Union … Continue reading
The Africa-ICC Relationship – More and Less than Meets the Eye (Part 3)
Over the last two weeks, I have attempted to critically examine and assess the relationship between African states and the ICC. In the first post, I critiqued popular assumptions about the relationship, namely that it is viewed as either the … Continue reading
Justice, But Only For Some: The Trial of Hissène Habré
Kelly-Jo Bluen joins JiC for this critical take on the trial of Hissène Habré and the need to pursue justice for all parties responsible for atrocities in Chad. Kelly-Jo is the project leader for international justice at the Institute for … Continue reading
The Africa-ICC Relationship – More and Less than Meets the Eye (Part 2)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has an ‘Africa problem’. The Court is widely perceived as a Western, neo-colonial institution that unfairly targets African states. The ICC and its champions insist this isn’t the case. The Court is simply misunderstood and … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, African Union (AU), Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Child Soldiers, Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominic Ongwen ICC, Hissène Habré, International Criminal Court (ICC), Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast and the ICC, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Omar al-Bashir, Senegal, Special African Chamber (CAE), Sudan, Uganda, UN Security Council
11 Comments
The Africa-ICC Relationship – More and Less than Meets the Eye (Part 1)
This is part one of a three-part series on the ICC-Africa relationship. Click here for part 2 and here for part 3. There is no point denying it. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has a problem with its relationship with … Continue reading