Line Engbo Gissel
Biographic Data
| ID | 164242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Line Engbo Gissel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Line Engbo |
| FAMILY NAME | Gissel |
| SIGNATURE | GISSEL L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7406-7695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global Governance by Manual: The Transitional Justice Toolkit and the Standardization of a Field
Guidelines, manuals, and toolkits are a ubiquitous yet overlooked prop in contemporary global governance. Produced by regional and global organizations and NGOs to guide national policymakers and practitioners, they proliferate in every field of international regulation from democratization and education to accounting and health. Yet they are rarely analyzed or theorized as a phenomenon of global governance. This article approaches manuals and to…
Calling for Inclusion: Negotiating Boundaries in the Transitional Justice Script
As transitional justice (TJ) has gained prominence as a global informal standard, it continues to receive critique for its limitations. This article examines the negotiation of the boundaries of TJ prompted by calls for inclusion, specifically for environmental justice and corporate accountability. Through a novel conceptualization of TJ's possible "substantive expansion," and by building on theory on boundary work and standardization, the study …
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities by Kate Cronin-Furman
I review Kate Cronin-Furman's book 'Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities', published in 2022. The book provides important findings and a 'theory of quasi-compliance', but also has some shortcomings which I discuss
Nomos and Narrative in International Criminal Justice
This article grounds contemporary contestations over the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the constitutive moment of the 1990s, when the Court was a global idea that took shape around a set of key concepts and related understandings of world order. It studies the positions communicated by 129 states during the negotiations of ICC establishment, applying Robert Cover’s narrative law and its pluralist notion of legal meaning to a systematic co…
The standardisation of transitional justice
This article argues that transitional justice (TJ) has recently been standardised: There is now a two-tiered global standard of TJ which structures policy responses and academic thinking. TJ comprises criminal justice, truth-telling, reparation and institutional reform – four core elements in a ‘comprehensive’ approach. The standard involves specifications for design, procedure and performance and draws on a selection of seemingly unambiguous int…
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania
Tanzania's President sent a plane to Madagascar in May 2020 to bring a shipment of Covid-Organics, a purported cure and prevention for COVID-19. The herbal remedy was described as a gift to help African countries in need. Drawing on preliminary data in English and Kiswahili from unstructured participant observation, social and legacy media available online and shared through contact channels, and ongoing conversations, we explore the Tanzanian po…
Non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court in gatekeeper states: Regime security in Deby’s Chad
If the International Criminal Court (ICC) manages to prosecute Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s former president, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide it will be because the new Sudanese regime arrested and extradited him. African parties to the ICC, who had a legal duty to detain al-Bashir, avoided or refused this dramatic step and instead made a regional commitment to shield him. This article analyses the question of non-cooperation in r…
A Different Kind of Court: Africa’s Support for the International Criminal Court, 1993–2003
This article seeks to understand the contemporary crisis in Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) by going back to the Court’s founding moment. It investigates African states’ participation in the creation of the ICC, asking: Which kind of international criminal court did African countries seek to establish when negotiating the Rome Statute? To understand their vision for the ICC, the article provides an interpretive a…
Explaining African participation in international courts
Africa has more international courts than any other continent, yet International Relations scholarship has failed to explain this move to law on the African continent. This article provides such an explanation using Jean-François Bayart’s concept of extraversion. It shows how the creation of international courts in the 1990s and early 2000s was the result of extraverted strategies for attracting international resources and pre-empting donor press…
Legitimising the Juba peace Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation: The International Criminal Court as a third-party actor
This article analyses the Juba peace negotiations on accountability and reconciliation. It advances a new interpretation of the Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation, focusing on five justice features: national proceedings, restorative accountability, alternative sentencing, individual responsibility and forward-looking victimhood. The article argues that the nature of the agreed justice policy derives from negotiators and mediators' pur…
Contemporary Transitional Justice: Normalising a Politics of Exception
This article studies the contemporary expression of transitional justice, a field of practice through which global governance is exercised. It argues that transitional justice is being normalised, given the normative and empirical de-legitimisation of its premise of exceptionalism. The article theorises exceptionalism and normalcy in transitional justice and identifies three macro-level causes of normalisation: the legalisation, internationalisat…
Justice Tides: How and When Levels of ICC Involvement Affect Peace Processes: Table 1
This article investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in situations of ongoing conflict affects peace processes. It argues that the level of ICC involvement is crucial for the Court’s impact on peace settlements and that this impact takes the form of delegating politico-legal and discursive authority away from peace process actors. To make this argument, the article disaggregates the processes of ICC involvement and …
From links of iron to slender rope: Essays in the Empire and Commonwealth Essay Competition
Focusing on young peoples' articulation of modernity in the imperial and the postcolonial contexts, this paper compares the winning essays submitted to the 1920s Empire Essay Competition with the 21st century entries in the Commonwealth Essay Competition. While the early essays articulate a universal notion of progress as the road to Anglo-Saxon state- and nationhood, the essays of today critically assess and critique modernity. The article argue…
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania
Tanzania's President sent a plane to Madagascar in May 2020 to bring a shipment of Covid-Organics, a purported cure and prevention for COVID-19. The herbal remedy was described as a gift to help African countries in need. Drawing on preliminary data in English and Kiswahili from unstructured participant observation, social and legacy media available online and shared through contact channels, and ongoing conversations, we explore the Tanzanian po…
The standardisation of transitional justice
This article argues that transitional justice (TJ) has recently been standardised: There is now a two-tiered global standard of TJ which structures policy responses and academic thinking. TJ comprises criminal justice, truth-telling, reparation and institutional reform – four core elements in a ‘comprehensive’ approach. The standard involves specifications for design, procedure and performance and draws on a selection of seemingly unambiguous int…
A Different Kind of Court: Africa’s Support for the International Criminal Court, 1993–2003
This article seeks to understand the contemporary crisis in Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) by going back to the Court’s founding moment. It investigates African states’ participation in the creation of the ICC, asking: Which kind of international criminal court did African countries seek to establish when negotiating the Rome Statute? To understand their vision for the ICC, the article provides an interpretive a…
Contemporary Transitional Justice: Normalising a Politics of Exception
This article studies the contemporary expression of transitional justice, a field of practice through which global governance is exercised. It argues that transitional justice is being normalised, given the normative and empirical de-legitimisation of its premise of exceptionalism. The article theorises exceptionalism and normalcy in transitional justice and identifies three macro-level causes of normalisation: the legalisation, internationalisat…
Non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court in gatekeeper states: Regime security in Deby’s Chad
If the International Criminal Court (ICC) manages to prosecute Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s former president, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide it will be because the new Sudanese regime arrested and extradited him. African parties to the ICC, who had a legal duty to detain al-Bashir, avoided or refused this dramatic step and instead made a regional commitment to shield him. This article analyses the question of non-cooperation in r…
Legitimising the Juba peace Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation: The International Criminal Court as a third-party actor
This article analyses the Juba peace negotiations on accountability and reconciliation. It advances a new interpretation of the Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation, focusing on five justice features: national proceedings, restorative accountability, alternative sentencing, individual responsibility and forward-looking victimhood. The article argues that the nature of the agreed justice policy derives from negotiators and mediators' pur…
Explaining African participation in international courts
Africa has more international courts than any other continent, yet International Relations scholarship has failed to explain this move to law on the African continent. This article provides such an explanation using Jean-François Bayart’s concept of extraversion. It shows how the creation of international courts in the 1990s and early 2000s was the result of extraverted strategies for attracting international resources and pre-empting donor press…
Justice Tides: How and When Levels of ICC Involvement Affect Peace Processes: Table 1
This article investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in situations of ongoing conflict affects peace processes. It argues that the level of ICC involvement is crucial for the Court’s impact on peace settlements and that this impact takes the form of delegating politico-legal and discursive authority away from peace process actors. To make this argument, the article disaggregates the processes of ICC involvement and …
From links of iron to slender rope: Essays in the Empire and Commonwealth Essay Competition
Focusing on young peoples' articulation of modernity in the imperial and the postcolonial contexts, this paper compares the winning essays submitted to the 1920s Empire Essay Competition with the 21st century entries in the Commonwealth Essay Competition. While the early essays articulate a universal notion of progress as the road to Anglo-Saxon state- and nationhood, the essays of today critically assess and critique modernity. The article argue…
Justice Tides: How and When Levels of ICC Involvement Affect Peace Processes: Table 1
This article investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in situations of ongoing conflict affects peace processes. It argues that the level of ICC involvement is crucial for the Court’s impact on peace settlements and that this impact takes the form of delegating politico-legal and discursive authority away from peace process actors. To make this argument, the article disaggregates the processes of ICC involvement and …
Contemporary Transitional Justice: Normalising a Politics of Exception
This article studies the contemporary expression of transitional justice, a field of practice through which global governance is exercised. It argues that transitional justice is being normalised, given the normative and empirical de-legitimisation of its premise of exceptionalism. The article theorises exceptionalism and normalcy in transitional justice and identifies three macro-level causes of normalisation: the legalisation, internationalisat…
Legitimising the Juba peace Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation: The International Criminal Court as a third-party actor
This article analyses the Juba peace negotiations on accountability and reconciliation. It advances a new interpretation of the Agreement on Accountability and Reconciliation, focusing on five justice features: national proceedings, restorative accountability, alternative sentencing, individual responsibility and forward-looking victimhood. The article argues that the nature of the agreed justice policy derives from negotiators and mediators' pur…
A Different Kind of Court: Africa’s Support for the International Criminal Court, 1993–2003
This article seeks to understand the contemporary crisis in Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) by going back to the Court’s founding moment. It investigates African states’ participation in the creation of the ICC, asking: Which kind of international criminal court did African countries seek to establish when negotiating the Rome Statute? To understand their vision for the ICC, the article provides an interpretive a…
Explaining African participation in international courts
Africa has more international courts than any other continent, yet International Relations scholarship has failed to explain this move to law on the African continent. This article provides such an explanation using Jean-François Bayart’s concept of extraversion. It shows how the creation of international courts in the 1990s and early 2000s was the result of extraverted strategies for attracting international resources and pre-empting donor press…
Non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court in gatekeeper states: Regime security in Deby’s Chad
If the International Criminal Court (ICC) manages to prosecute Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s former president, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide it will be because the new Sudanese regime arrested and extradited him. African parties to the ICC, who had a legal duty to detain al-Bashir, avoided or refused this dramatic step and instead made a regional commitment to shield him. This article analyses the question of non-cooperation in r…
South-South humanitarianism: The case of Covid-organics in Tanzania
Tanzania's President sent a plane to Madagascar in May 2020 to bring a shipment of Covid-Organics, a purported cure and prevention for COVID-19. The herbal remedy was described as a gift to help African countries in need. Drawing on preliminary data in English and Kiswahili from unstructured participant observation, social and legacy media available online and shared through contact channels, and ongoing conversations, we explore the Tanzanian po…
Nomos and Narrative in International Criminal Justice
This article grounds contemporary contestations over the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the constitutive moment of the 1990s, when the Court was a global idea that took shape around a set of key concepts and related understandings of world order. It studies the positions communicated by 129 states during the negotiations of ICC establishment, applying Robert Cover’s narrative law and its pluralist notion of legal meaning to a systematic co…
The standardisation of transitional justice
This article argues that transitional justice (TJ) has recently been standardised: There is now a two-tiered global standard of TJ which structures policy responses and academic thinking. TJ comprises criminal justice, truth-telling, reparation and institutional reform – four core elements in a ‘comprehensive’ approach. The standard involves specifications for design, procedure and performance and draws on a selection of seemingly unambiguous int…
Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities by Kate Cronin-Furman
I review Kate Cronin-Furman's book 'Hypocrisy and Human Rights: Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities', published in 2022. The book provides important findings and a 'theory of quasi-compliance', but also has some shortcomings which I discuss
Calling for Inclusion: Negotiating Boundaries in the Transitional Justice Script
As transitional justice (TJ) has gained prominence as a global informal standard, it continues to receive critique for its limitations. This article examines the negotiation of the boundaries of TJ prompted by calls for inclusion, specifically for environmental justice and corporate accountability. Through a novel conceptualization of TJ's possible "substantive expansion," and by building on theory on boundary work and standardization, the study …
Global Governance by Manual: The Transitional Justice Toolkit and the Standardization of a Field
Guidelines, manuals, and toolkits are a ubiquitous yet overlooked prop in contemporary global governance. Produced by regional and global organizations and NGOs to guide national policymakers and practitioners, they proliferate in every field of international regulation from democratization and education to accounting and health. Yet they are rarely analyzed or theorized as a phenomenon of global governance. This article approaches manuals and to…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (5 works) · Transitional justice (4 works)