Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Contested justice :

Contested justice : the politics and practice of the International Criminal Court interventions / edited by Christian De Vos, Sara Kendall, Carsten Stahn. - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015 - 1 online resource (xx, 505 pages)

Includes papers presented at a conference "Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership" at The Hague in May 2011.--Asknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In whose name? the ICC and the search for constituency / Justice civilisatrice? : the ICC, post-colonial theories and faces of 'the local' / The global as local : the limits and possibilities of integrating international and transitional justice / Bespoke transitional justice at the International Criminal Court / A synthesis of community based justice and complementarity / In the shadow of Kwoyelo's trial the ICC and complementarity in uganda / A story of missed opportunities : the role of the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo / The justice vanguard : Kenyan civil society and the pursuit of accountability / 'They told us we would be part of history' : reflections on the civil society intermediary experience in the Great Lakes Region / Challenges and limitations of outreach : from the ICTY to the ICC / 'We ask for justice, you give us law' : justice talk and the encapsulation of victims / Refracted justice : the imagined victim and the International Criminal Court / Reparations and the politics of recognition / Beyond the restorative turn : the limits of legal humanitarianism / All roads lead to Rome : implementation and domestic politics in Kenya and Uganda / Applying and 'misapplying' the Rome Statute in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Beyond the 'shadow' of the ICC : struggles over control of the conflict narrative in Colombia / Between justice and politics : the ICC's intervention in Libya / Peace making, justice, and the ICC / Frederic Megret -- Carsten Stahn -- David S. Koller -- Jaya Ramji-Nogales -- Michael A. Newton -- Stephen Oola -- Pascal Kalume Kambale -- Njonjo Mue and Judy Gitau -- Deirdre Clancy -- Matias Hellman -- Kamari Maxine Clarke -- Laurel E. Fletcher -- Peter J. Dixon -- Sara Kendall -- Christian M. De Vos -- Patryk I. Labuda -- Jennifer Easterday -- Mark Kersten -- Juan E. Mendez and Jeremy Kelley.

"This timely, perceptive book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the field of international criminal justice through focusing on a singular institution: the International Criminal Court (ICC). Drawing on a range of experience, empirical work, and normative theory, it seeks to come to grips with a remarkable development-the creation of a permanent, international court meant to adjudicate mass crimes-through assessing the ICC's work in practice, given now more than a decade of experience to explore"--

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