International Criminal Justice in Bello?

The ICC Between Law and Politics in Darfur and Northern Uganda
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19312-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: International Humanitarian Law Series

The International Criminal Court (ICC) plays a particularly delicate role in situations of ongoing armed conflicts, both from a legal and a political perspective. While the primary objective of the ICC Statute is to end impunity, States Parties and the UN Security Council were mainly driven by political considerations when they triggered ICC jurisdiction over the situations in northern Uganda and Darfur. In this book, the author discusses strategies within the legal framework governing the Court to counter such politicization. He concludes that although the ICC can have beneficial effects on ongoing armed conflicts, its primary raison d’être should not be to influence politics but to continue to fight impunity in the long run.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in international criminal law and the development of the International Criminal Court, peace and conflict studies and the relationship between law and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kastner, Philipp

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Recht, Kultur, Umwelt etc.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List of Acronyms; Introduction;
1. The Conceptual Framework - International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflicts;
2. The Factual Framework - The Conflicts in Northern Uganda and Darfur;
3. The Referrals of the Two Situations to the ICC Prosecutor;
4. The Effects of the ICC Involvement on the Conflicts – No Justice without Peace?;
5. A Possibly Proactive Role of the ICC Prosecutor through His Prosecutorial Discretion;
Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kastner, Philipp
Philipp Kastner, Dr. iur. (2009), University of Innsbruck, Austria, is a DCL/PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal (Quebec), Canada. His research focuses on the resolution of armed conflicts, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, legal pluralism and legal theory.