The Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court

ISBN-13: 9781108488013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 475 str.

Massachusetts) Gaskins Richard (Brandeis University

Opis

An insightful account of the international court's efforts to make sense of African conflicts in completing its first three trials.

Recenzje

'When confronted with the workings of any new court, the uninitiated need confident, articulate guides. In Gaskins, readers have one who knows his stuff but also understands, from long experience working with students, exactly where they are likely to struggle. Compassionate yet incisive, he explains where the high-minded idealism of the human rights world grates against the frustrating, banal realities of evidence-collection and the administration of justice in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's an account drafted by an expert with a big heart, a meticulous grasp of the workings of universal law, and an empathetic understanding of the vagaries of human behaviour.' Michela Wrong, author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz and It's Our Turn to Eat

Spis treści

Part I. A laboratory for global justice; Part II. Testing a new court: 1. Spreading justice to distant conflicts; 2. Balancing politics, morality, and culture; Part III. Back in Ituri: 3. Ituri in the web of chaos: the macro view; 4. Structures of local conflict: the micro view; Part IV. The bridge to the Hague: 5. Battling impunity in Ituri; 6. ICC structures, dynamics, tensions; Part V. The Congo trials: 7. The trial of Thomas Lubanga; 8. The trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo; 9. The trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba; Part VI. Observations.