Category Archives: Justice

“Give Me a Smile”: The Sexism at Play During ICC Prosecutor Proceedings

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Mark Kersten

Başak Etkin joins JiC for this guest post exploring issues of sexism that plagued last week’s interviews with candidates to be the next chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Başak is a teaching and research fellow as well as … Continue reading →

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Peace versus Justice, Round 10,000? Nah. Some Options for the International Criminal Court

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Mark Kersten

The following is Mark Kersten’s contribution to the ‘Rethinking Peace and Justice’ symposium. All other contributions to the symposium can be found here.  Since the dawn of humankind, communities have been thinking and rethinking the relationship between peace and justice. … Continue reading →

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The Next ICC Prosecutor Must Embody Integrity in the #MeToo Era

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Mark Kersten

This post by Danya Chaikel originally appeared at Opinio Juris as part of our symposium on the Next ICC Prosecutor. Due to the urgency and immediacy of the issues raised in it, I have decided to publish at JiC as well. Danya is … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Barrie Sander

Today marks the launch of a symposium that I have convened with Jakob Holtermann on Humanity’s blog platform. Entitled Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals, the symposium should be of interest to readers of Justice in Conflict. Below … Continue reading →

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The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Barrie Sander

I recently reviewed an excellent new collection of essays Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016). The book should be of interest to anyone working in the field of human rights … Continue reading →

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Transitional Justice Battlegrounds: Another Bad Week in Burundi

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Mark Kersten

Astrid Jamar joins JiC for this guest-post on recent developments regarding transitional and international criminal justice in Burundi. Astrid is a Research Assistant in Political Settlements Research Programmes at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Law. Transitional justice has been … Continue reading →

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The International Criminal Court and the Peace-Justice Debate

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Mark Kersten

This article is a critical assessment of the scholarship and current state of the so-called “peace versus justice” debate. It is largely based on findings from my new book, which seeks to assess the impacts of the ICC on ending … Continue reading →

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Justice for Post-Election Violence in Kenya – An Obituary

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Mark Kersten

Champions of international accountability join with the survivors of human rights violations in Kenya to announce the premature death of justice for crimes perpetrated in the aftermath of the 2007 elections. Following the final death throes of the cases at … Continue reading →

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Why is the International Criminal Court stepping out of Africa and into Georgia?

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Mark Kersten

After three months of deliberations, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have finally approved the opening of an official investigation into the 2008 war in Georgia. Prosecutors will focus on the ethnic cleansing of Georgians from the breakaway region … Continue reading →

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A Portrait from The Hague: All You Need to Know About What Laurent Gbagbo Wants You to Know

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Mark Kersten

Not all ICC indictees spend their days awaiting trial by writing self-serving biographies. But that is exactly what Laurent Gbagbo, the former President of  Côte d’Ivoire, has done. Sophie T. Rosenberg joins JiC for this  post on Gbagbo’s recently published … Continue reading →

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