Oumar Ba
Biographic Data
| ID | 110102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oumar Ba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ba |
| SIGNATURE | BA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1729-0759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reconciliation and the Aporia of Transitional Justice
s Transitional justice mechanisms have emerged in several dozen countries since the end of the Cold War under various forms, combining prosecutions, truth-seeking, reconciliation, or reform of security and judicial systems. These mechanisms have left a trail of complex legacies. This article critically engages with the concept of reconciliation in transitional justice, especially in settler colonial contexts. It argues that reconciliation mechani…
Book Forum: Becoming Animal, Becoming Human: An Introduction to the Forum Becoming Animal, Becoming Human: An Introduction to the Forum
A secretary and a reluctant general
Better than Objectivity: ” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement
Thank You to Reviewers
International Criminal Justice
The selectivity at the heart of the international legal order is not indicative of hypocrisy, but rather the consistency with which the International Criminal Justice regime operates. The international legal order has always been predicated on a state of exception and exemption. The denial of humanity and the meting out of violence against the racialized ‘other’ is central to the liberal internationalist project. Ukraine and Gaza show that the fu…
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination
It is often pointed out that African states were early and eager supporters of the international criminal justice regime. Yet the current international legal order is starkly different from the one African states had envisioned. By revisiting the archives of two pivotal moments in the establishment of the current international legal order—the work of the International Legal Commission (ILC) in drafting the Code of Crimes against the Peace and Sec…
Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha
In adopting the Malabo Protocol and creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the African Union has established the first ever regional court with international criminal jurisdiction. This milestone signals once again, the role of African institutions in creating and developing norms in international politics. Yet, both International Relations (IR) theories and debates and official narratives of the historiography of the internation…
The African Union and Emerging Patterns of Global Health Governance
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings and inequities in the global health system were amplified. International actors lost faith in the major global health institutions, and there was intense competition amongst states for critical supplies and vaccines. During these challenging circumstances, the African Union (AU) and its specialized technical institute (now autonomous agency) the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Preventio…
Monitoring compliance with Senegal’s tobacco products packaging and labelling requirements 6 months after implementation of the law
AFRO countries have made substantial progress in adopting comprehensive tobacco control laws that bring them closer into alignment with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This study found areas of effective implementation of FCTC recommended packaging and labelling requirements, as well as areas in need of stronger enforcement
The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction
Global justice and race
The Many Entanglements of the Malian Conflict
When Teaching is Impossible: A Pandemic pedagogy of Care
how we can best proceed collectively during the pandemic and its aftermath, especially concerning the unique challenges we face in our field
Governing the souls and community: Why do Islamists destroy world heritage sites
From Bamiyan to Timbuktu and Palmyra, Islamic fundamentalist groups have willfully destroyed cultural edifices which were listed as world heritage sites. Yet, beyond the criminal acts and their shock value, this article argues that attacks on cultural and religious sites may be viewed as actions embedded in a political project of gouvernement. In this regard, spectacular destruction of cultural heritage may not be simply a signal sent to the inte…
Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the prosecution of destruction of cultural heritage as war crimes
Following the attacks in Timbuktu in 2012, the ICC's Al Mahdi case became the first instance where one perpetrator was solely charged with the war crime of destruction of cultural heritage. The ICC prioritized the crimes against cultural heritage at the expense of other types of atrocities in Northern Mali for two reasons: expediency, and the convergence of interests between the Court, the Malian state, and the international community. This study…
Agents of Change: How International Courts Alter International Politics
Whereas there were only six permanent international courts (ICs) at the end of the Cold War in 1989, these days, more than two dozen ICs operate around the world and have issued more than 37,000 binding rulings (p. 78). Karen Alter discusses the development and trends in the new terrain of international law, chartered by ICs, and explains how delegation of authority to international judicial institutions affects global and domestic politics. In d…
International Justice and the Postcolonial Condition
This article moves beyond the reductive debate whether the International Criminal Court is the “Court for Africa,” targeting Africans. Placing the ICC in its historical, larger context and within global politics, I argue that international law and the theory and practice of international criminal justice lie on foundations that consecrated the West as the sole trustees of law, justice, and morality. To that extent, and drawing from IR, postcoloni…
William Schabas, Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals
The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines the four categories of unimaginable atrocities: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. For William Schabas, the word ‘genocide’ has ‘a strange, mysterious effect. For victims, it presents itself as a badge of honour, the only adequate way to describe their suffering or that of their ancestors’.1 Therein lies the notion of the ‘genocide mystique’.2 T…
HIV/Aids in African militaries: An ecological analysis
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is considered a security threat. Policy-makers have warned of destabilization of militaries due to massive troop deaths. Estimates of the rate of HIV within African militaries have been as high as 90 per cent. We aimed to determine if HIV prevalence within African militaries is higher than their host nation prevalence rates. Using systematic searching and access to United States Department of Defense data, we abstracted data…
Chronométrie du destin d'El-Hadj Omar
Thierno Brahim Kane, fondateur de Maghama (1810-1869)
La Penetration Francaise au Cayor. Du Rente de Birima N'gone Latyr a l'Intronisation de Madiodo Deguene Cadou. Tome I: Premiere et Deuxieme Parties, 16 Decembre 1854-28 Mai 1861
L'Anti-Sultan ou Al Hâjj Omar Tâl du Foûta: De Fernand Dumont
Des sites historiques au Tagant
Ba Oumar. Des sites historiques au Tagant. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1973, tome 43, fascicule 2. pp. 245-246
Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the prosecution of destruction of cultural heritage as war crimes
Following the attacks in Timbuktu in 2012, the ICC's Al Mahdi case became the first instance where one perpetrator was solely charged with the war crime of destruction of cultural heritage. The ICC prioritized the crimes against cultural heritage at the expense of other types of atrocities in Northern Mali for two reasons: expediency, and the convergence of interests between the Court, the Malian state, and the international community. This study…
The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction
International Justice and the Postcolonial Condition
This article moves beyond the reductive debate whether the International Criminal Court is the “Court for Africa,” targeting Africans. Placing the ICC in its historical, larger context and within global politics, I argue that international law and the theory and practice of international criminal justice lie on foundations that consecrated the West as the sole trustees of law, justice, and morality. To that extent, and drawing from IR, postcoloni…
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination
It is often pointed out that African states were early and eager supporters of the international criminal justice regime. Yet the current international legal order is starkly different from the one African states had envisioned. By revisiting the archives of two pivotal moments in the establishment of the current international legal order—the work of the International Legal Commission (ILC) in drafting the Code of Crimes against the Peace and Sec…
When Teaching is Impossible: A Pandemic pedagogy of Care
how we can best proceed collectively during the pandemic and its aftermath, especially concerning the unique challenges we face in our field
Governing the souls and community: Why do Islamists destroy world heritage sites
From Bamiyan to Timbuktu and Palmyra, Islamic fundamentalist groups have willfully destroyed cultural edifices which were listed as world heritage sites. Yet, beyond the criminal acts and their shock value, this article argues that attacks on cultural and religious sites may be viewed as actions embedded in a political project of gouvernement. In this regard, spectacular destruction of cultural heritage may not be simply a signal sent to the inte…
Sénégal
Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha
In adopting the Malabo Protocol and creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the African Union has established the first ever regional court with international criminal jurisdiction. This milestone signals once again, the role of African institutions in creating and developing norms in international politics. Yet, both International Relations (IR) theories and debates and official narratives of the historiography of the internation…
Dix-huit poèmes peul modernes, présentés par Pierre F. Lacroix
Ba Oumar. Dix-huit poèmes peul modernes, présentés par Pierre F. Lacroix. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 2, n°8, 1962. pp. 536-550
Sénégal
Une figure eurafricaine: Le chef de province Baila Birane Wane (Sénégal et Mauritanie)
Ba Oumar. Une figure eurafricaine : le chef de province Baila Birane Wane (Sénégal et Mauritanie).. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1971, tome 41, fascicule 2. pp. 257-258
Des sites historiques au Tagant
Ba Oumar. Des sites historiques au Tagant. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1973, tome 43, fascicule 2. pp. 245-246
L'Anti-Sultan ou Al Hâjj Omar Tâl du Foûta: De Fernand Dumont
La Penetration Francaise au Cayor. Du Rente de Birima N'gone Latyr a l'Intronisation de Madiodo Deguene Cadou. Tome I: Premiere et Deuxieme Parties, 16 Decembre 1854-28 Mai 1861
Chronométrie du destin d'El-Hadj Omar
Thierno Brahim Kane, fondateur de Maghama (1810-1869)
HIV/Aids in African militaries: An ecological analysis
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is considered a security threat. Policy-makers have warned of destabilization of militaries due to massive troop deaths. Estimates of the rate of HIV within African militaries have been as high as 90 per cent. We aimed to determine if HIV prevalence within African militaries is higher than their host nation prevalence rates. Using systematic searching and access to United States Department of Defense data, we abstracted data…
William Schabas, Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals
The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines the four categories of unimaginable atrocities: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. For William Schabas, the word ‘genocide’ has ‘a strange, mysterious effect. For victims, it presents itself as a badge of honour, the only adequate way to describe their suffering or that of their ancestors’.1 Therein lies the notion of the ‘genocide mystique’.2 T…
Agents of Change: How International Courts Alter International Politics
Whereas there were only six permanent international courts (ICs) at the end of the Cold War in 1989, these days, more than two dozen ICs operate around the world and have issued more than 37,000 binding rulings (p. 78). Karen Alter discusses the development and trends in the new terrain of international law, chartered by ICs, and explains how delegation of authority to international judicial institutions affects global and domestic politics. In d…
International Justice and the Postcolonial Condition
This article moves beyond the reductive debate whether the International Criminal Court is the “Court for Africa,” targeting Africans. Placing the ICC in its historical, larger context and within global politics, I argue that international law and the theory and practice of international criminal justice lie on foundations that consecrated the West as the sole trustees of law, justice, and morality. To that extent, and drawing from IR, postcoloni…
When Teaching is Impossible: A Pandemic pedagogy of Care
how we can best proceed collectively during the pandemic and its aftermath, especially concerning the unique challenges we face in our field
Governing the souls and community: Why do Islamists destroy world heritage sites
From Bamiyan to Timbuktu and Palmyra, Islamic fundamentalist groups have willfully destroyed cultural edifices which were listed as world heritage sites. Yet, beyond the criminal acts and their shock value, this article argues that attacks on cultural and religious sites may be viewed as actions embedded in a political project of gouvernement. In this regard, spectacular destruction of cultural heritage may not be simply a signal sent to the inte…
Contested Meanings: Timbuktu and the prosecution of destruction of cultural heritage as war crimes
Following the attacks in Timbuktu in 2012, the ICC's Al Mahdi case became the first instance where one perpetrator was solely charged with the war crime of destruction of cultural heritage. The ICC prioritized the crimes against cultural heritage at the expense of other types of atrocities in Northern Mali for two reasons: expediency, and the convergence of interests between the Court, the Malian state, and the international community. This study…
Global justice and race
The Many Entanglements of the Malian Conflict
Monitoring compliance with Senegal’s tobacco products packaging and labelling requirements 6 months after implementation of the law
AFRO countries have made substantial progress in adopting comprehensive tobacco control laws that bring them closer into alignment with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This study found areas of effective implementation of FCTC recommended packaging and labelling requirements, as well as areas in need of stronger enforcement
The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: Of Translation, Interpretation, and Extraction
Constructing an international legal order under the shadow of colonial domination
It is often pointed out that African states were early and eager supporters of the international criminal justice regime. Yet the current international legal order is starkly different from the one African states had envisioned. By revisiting the archives of two pivotal moments in the establishment of the current international legal order—the work of the International Legal Commission (ILC) in drafting the Code of Crimes against the Peace and Sec…
Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha
In adopting the Malabo Protocol and creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the African Union has established the first ever regional court with international criminal jurisdiction. This milestone signals once again, the role of African institutions in creating and developing norms in international politics. Yet, both International Relations (IR) theories and debates and official narratives of the historiography of the internation…
The African Union and Emerging Patterns of Global Health Governance
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings and inequities in the global health system were amplified. International actors lost faith in the major global health institutions, and there was intense competition amongst states for critical supplies and vaccines. During these challenging circumstances, the African Union (AU) and its specialized technical institute (now autonomous agency) the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Preventio…
Better than Objectivity: ” Critique as Method without the Fetishization of Measurement
Thank You to Reviewers
International Criminal Justice
The selectivity at the heart of the international legal order is not indicative of hypocrisy, but rather the consistency with which the International Criminal Justice regime operates. The international legal order has always been predicated on a state of exception and exemption. The denial of humanity and the meting out of violence against the racialized ‘other’ is central to the liberal internationalist project. Ukraine and Gaza show that the fu…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (7 works) · International law (7 works) · International Law and Human Rights (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works)