Organizing Hypocrisy
Providing Legal Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Areas of Limited Statehood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6272995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milli Lake (0000-0002-5915-7374, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 515-526 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/isqu.12144 |
| OpenAlex | W2096955572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 36 |
In recent years, courts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) have produced some of the most progressive judicial decisions against perpetrators of gender violence of anywhere in the world. Yet, DR Congo is often described as the archetypal collapsed state. This article uses a case study of domestic courts in Eastern DR Congo to analyze how and why complex functions of domestic governance—such as the production of frequent and high-quality judicial decisions by domestic courts—are able to persist, even flourish, in an area where the state is characterized by extreme fragility and weakness. I argue that, rather than a decoupling of law and practice as previous approaches might predict, state fragility in DR Congo has created openings for domestic and transnational actors to exert direct influence over judicial processes at multiple levels of governance. The involvement of external actors in the domestic authority structures of states has resulted in surprisingly progressive human rights outcomes in certain issue areas. However, the article also documents some of the unintended consequences of human rights developments that occur at the very peripheries of broader state-building projects
Accountability · Business · Corporate governance · Democracy · Fragility · Human rights · Hypocrisy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law
Strong NGOs and Weak States
Necessary but not sufficient
A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts
Motivations for sexual violence in armed conflicts
“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Beyond the Lines
Toward a Transitional Justice Approach to Long-Term Protection of Civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Measuring Norms and Normative Contestation
Limitations of hypocrisy as a strategy of critique in international politics
Justice Now and Later
Emergent Hybrid Legality
Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding
Field Research on Law in Conflict Zones and Authoritarian States
Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship
The politics of counting and reporting conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
Truth, justice, and reconciliation on the ground
What Can We/Do We Want to Know? Reflections from Researching SGBV in Military Settings
The Transitional Justice Gap
Illicit Justice
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism
Building Capacity, Building Rights? State Capacity and Labor Rights in Developing Countries
Managing to mitigate abuse
Unintended Positive Complementarity
Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy
Beyond the hype? The response to sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2011 and 2014
Max Weber in the tropics
Window-Dressing or Window of Opportunity? Assessing the Advancement of Gender Equality in Autocracies
Social Preferences
Resisting Rights to Renounce Imperialism
Deploying Justice
Building the Rule of War
Law and Politics in Transitional Justice
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture
Conflict, Protection, and Punishment
The Unbearable Lightness of Rights
The environmental state at sea
Social Isolation and Repertoires of Resistance
Maybe we should take the legal ways
The Difference Law Makes
Gendering Justice in Humanitarian Spaces
Incorporation
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad
Security and Human Rights
Humanitarian Intervention
Rights Talk and the Experience of Law
Why Nations Fail
Activists beyond Borders
When States Fail
Advocacy Organizations and Collective Action
The Trouble with the Congo
Sovereignty
Mobilizing for Human Rights
You say rape, I say hospitals. But whose voice is louder?’ Health, aid and decision-making in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Rape and Attrition in the Legal Process
Governance without Government in Somalia
The NGO Scramble
Sharing Sovereignty
Estimates and Determinants of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Politics as Vocation
Activists beyond borders
Why Africa's Weak States Persist
Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights
Best Evidence
Hobbes and the Congo
State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises
Dangerous tales
Making sense of violence
Humanitarian presence and urban development
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
World Society and the Nation-State
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |