Targeting justice: targets, non-targets and the prospects for peace with justice
| Autor: | Mark Kersten |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050502 law
media_common.quotation_subject Compromise 05 social sciences Opposition (politics) Commit International law 050601 international relations 0506 political science Politics Negotiation Political science Political economy Law Political Science and International Relations Conflict resolution Political violence 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. 23:246-259 |
| ISSN: | 2157-0817 1192-6422 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/11926422.2017.1358195 |
| Popis: | Ongoing conflicts are increasingly accompanied by calls for judicial interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has led to an impassioned debate regarding the effects that ICC interventions have on conflict dynamics and peace processes. A primary argument within this debate is that the targets of ICC arrest warrants will reject participating peace negotiations and instead commit themselves to political violence. This paper argues that it just as likely that actors not targeted by the Court may reject negotiating with their adversaries and thus commit to violence. The paper demonstrates this dynamic by examining two ICC interventions: northern Uganda and Libya. In both cases, the ICC’s intervention legitimized its non-targets – the government in Uganda and the coalition of intervening forces and opposition rebels in Libya – while bolstering their commitment to a military solution and their rejection of a political compromise to their respective conflicts. Ultimately, it is conclu... |
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