By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 04 May 2009
What if the conflict many call the “first genocide of the 21st century” weren’t one at all?
In the United States, many see the six-year war in Darfur as a bloody campaign by a Sudanese Arab-dominated government against rebellious “African” tribes in western Sudan. Two consecutive American presidents [...]
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Is the Darfur Bloodshed Genocide? Opinions Differ – LA Times
Posted in Commentaries, News Updates, tagged Darfur, genocide, ICC, Sudan on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flint and de Waal offer harsh assessment of Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo
Posted in Commentaries, News Updates, tagged Alex de Waal, ICC, Julie Flint, Moreno Ocampo on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders.” By Julie Flint and Alex de Waal.
World Affairs Journal, Spring 2009
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Kofi Annan spoke for many when he said, “Until now, when powerful men committed crimes against humanity, they knew that as long as they remained powerful no earthly court could judge them.” The Nuremberg trials were victors’ justice—the prosecution [...]
LA Times Editorial: The Case for and against the ICC
Posted in Commentaries, tagged ICC, Rome Statute on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Los Angeles Times, Editorial, 16 March 2009
The Nuremberg trials at the close of World War II were controversial in their day. Advocates saw civilized nations imposing just retribution for acts of depravity; critics saw an exercise of victors’ justice, with rules of warfare imposed after the fact. From that divisive history emerged a movement to [...]
Appealing the Genocide Decision?
Posted in Commentaries, tagged de Waal, genocide, ICC, Sudan on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SSRC Blogs, Making Sense of Darfur
By Alex de Waal, 15 March 2009
I was surprised to read a report that the Prosecutor of the ICC is considering an appeal against the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision to not to charge President Omar al Bashir with genocide. The Prosecutor’s complaint seems to resemble that of a student who has [...]
Is Darfur Really a Genocide? – Alan Wolfe, The New Republic
Posted in Commentaries, tagged Darfur, genocide, ICC, Sudan on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Is Darfur Really a Genocide? That is the central question.”
By Alan Wolfe, The New Republic, 10 March 2009
Alex de Waal would like this discussion to get back to the concrete, specifically to the question of what the Obama administration ought to do about Darfur. But to answer that question, we first have to know what [...]
Opinion, LA Times: US Must Reengage with ICC
Posted in Commentaries, tagged ICC, US Government on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By David Kaye, Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2009
The arrest warrant issued last week for Sudan President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir has thrown into stark relief a question the Obama administration and Congress need to address:
What are we going to do about the International Criminal Court?
The desire for a permanent criminal court to try individuals [...]
Michael Kleinman, Change.org: Round-Up of Darfur Blog Posts from Last Few Days
Posted in Commentaries, News Updates, tagged ICC, Sudan on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Michael Kleinman, Change.Org’s Humanitarian Relief Blog, 09 March 2009
A quick round-up of some of the more interesting Darfur-related posts over the past few days:
- Julie Flint and Alex de Waal argue that, as between justice and peace in Darfur, peace must come first:
“International justice is a virtuous enterprise, but not risk-free. Sudanese people are [...]
ICC Observers Commentary: Importance of a Genocide Charge for Activist Groups in the US and Europe
Posted in Commentaries, tagged Aid, ICC, Sudan on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Marc Gustafson, 09 March 2009
Last week, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber chose not to include genocide in the arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir. Writers from ICC Observers raised an important question in response to the ICC’s decision: what does this mean for activist groups who are focused on Darfur? The answer to this question depends [...]
Opinion Snap Shot on Bashir: Alex de Waal, Nick Kristof and Tom Ginsburg
Posted in Commentaries, News Updates on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Do Anything: Stop and Think for a Moment
by Alex de Waal
At a moment like this, in which the ICC and the P3 have massively increased their threat against the Government of Sudan, which has retaliated in a manner that causes a new crisis, it is tempting for the UN and western governments to escalate [...]
Kenya Accountability Working Papers from Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Posted in Commentaries on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) invites you to read six new essays for analysis from commentators and scholars of Kenya, transitional justice, and violence.
The highlight from the recent contributions comes from Prof. Yash Ghai, the former Chair of the Kenya National Constitutional Conference and a former Special Representative for the UN Secretary General. Prof. Ghai [...]
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