Justice

Reconstructing Arab States: Do Fractured Politics Require the Tools of Transitional Justice?

Anthony Chase • Jan 8 2013 • Articles

The way to clear a path towards true revolutions in the Arab world that reconstitute public spheres in more open and pluralistic ways begins with coming to terms with the past.

Silencing a Supranational Court: The Rise and Fall of the SADC Tribunal

Merran Hulse • Oct 25 2012 • Articles

Why did South Africa, a progressive democratic state that claims respect for human rights and rule of law collude with the autocratic Zimbabwean government in stifling the SADC Tribunal?

The Challenging Road to Reconciliation in Rwanda

Ervin Staub • Jan 17 2012 • Articles

In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Hutus killed about 700 hundred thousand Tutsis. This piece will discuss institutions and processes of reconciliation since the genocide, discussing both their positive and problematic aspects.

Tortured Ideas: The responsibility of IR scholars

Peter Vale • Feb 17 2011 • Articles

Those eager to advise the prince often take the logic of Realist IR into dark places where fateful decisions are made. Why are so few voices in IR raised in dissent? And what must/should happen to those who carried the craft towards those fateful moments? And, most importantly, what’s to be done?

The Politics of Justice: The International Criminal Court Prosecutor seeks a Warrant

Benjamin Schiff • Jul 16 2008 • Articles

There is some irony in the criticism of ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo for issuing his request for a warrant of arrest for Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) was previously criticised for moving too slowly and for not targeting high levels of the government. How sensitive to a politics of consequence, then, should the Prosecutor be?

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