Third World Approaches to International Criminal Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3752116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asad G Kiyani, Asad Kiyani (0000-0002-4582-6039, California Western School of Law, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Pages | 255-259 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AJIL Unbound (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-7723 • E-ISSN: 2398-7723 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2398772300001550 |
| OpenAlex | W2623200421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
A pattern of affording impunity to local power brokers throughout Africa pervades the application of international criminal law (ICL) in Africa. The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into Uganda is a notorious but representative example, although similar analyses can be made of the Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Libya. In Uganda, only members of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been indicted for international crimes, even though the United Nations, international human rights groups, and local NGOs have documented years of abuses perpetrated by government troops and local auxiliary units, often against the same populations victimized by the LRA. The ICC is thereby implicated in the power structures and political arrangements of a repressive state that both combats the LRA and often brutalizes the civilian populations of northern Uganda. Inserting itself into Uganda, the ICC becomes a partisan player in the endgame of a civil war that extends back over a generation, and is itself rooted in ethnic and tribal animosities cultivated through 19thcentury Euro-colonial benedictions of favor. Here, the ICC and the war it adjudicates become surprising bedfellows, repurposed by local elites for the consolidation of domestic power
Democracy · Human rights · Impunity · International law · Political science · Politics · War crime · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
The Nation and the State
Enacting Twailian Praxis in Nonacademic Habitats
Self-Referring to the International Criminal Court
Introduction to Symposium on Theorizing Twail Activism
Power and Brokerage in International Criminal Justice
International criminal justice in an age of perpetual crisis
Corporations before International Criminal Courts
Introduction to Symposium on TWAIL Perspectives on ICL, IHL, and Intervention
The Logic of Nuremberg
Al-Bashir & the ICC
Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflicts
Towards a Criminal Chamber in the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
Doing Justice to the Political
The political ecology of war
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |