Distant Justice - The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics

Following the controversy stirred by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa, Clark analyses its multi-level impact on national politics and ordinary communities.

List of contents

1. Introduction: the warlord in the forecourt; 2. Court between two poles: conceptualising 'complementarity' and 'distance'; 3. Who pulls the strings? The ICC's relations with states; 4. In whose name? The ICC's relations with affected communities; 5. When courts collide: the ICC and domestic prosecutions; 6. Peace versus justice Redux: the ICC, amnesties and peace negotiations; 7. The ICC and community-based responses to atrocity; 8. Continental patterns: assessing the ICC's impact in the remaining African situations; 9. Conclusion: narrowing the distance.

About the author

Phil Clark is a Reader in Comparative and International Politics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues in Africa, including transitional justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. He is also a senior research fellow at the School of Leadership at the University of Johannesburg. Previously, Dr Clark was the co-founder and convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research and established the Research, Policy and Higher Education programme at the Aegis Trust Rwanda. His articles have featured in the Guardian, The New York Times, the BBC and CNN websites, Foreign Affairs, Times Higher Education Supplement, Prospect, Dissent, The East African, the Australian and the Huffington Post. His last book was The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers (Cambridge, 2010). He holds a doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Summary

The International Criminal Court's (ICC) focus on African suspects and societies in its first 16 years of operation has stirred widespread controversy. Based on 650 interviews over 11 years, this book analyses the ICC's regional, national and community-level effects across Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Clark, Phil (School of Oriental and African Studie Clark, Phil (School of Oriental and African Studies Clark, PHILIP CLARK, Clark Phil
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108474092
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47409-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Propaganda, Human Rights, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Political campaigning & advertising, Political science and theory, Political campaigning and advertising, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Political control and freedoms, Constitution: government & the state, Central government policies, Constitution: government and the state