1st Edition
The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa Decolonising Global Justice
By Everisto Benyera
Copyright 2022
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa (the ICC or the Court), asking why and how the international criminal justice system has so far largely failed the victims of atrocities in Africa. The book explores how the Court degenerated from a very promising multilateral institution to being an instrumentalised, politicised, weaponised institution... Read more
Chapter 1: Self-writing as restitutive justice in Africa: An introduction Chapter 2: The international justice system as a justice problem for Africa Chapter 3: The ICC and prosecutorial obsession Chapter 4: Is the ICC unfairly targeting Africa Chapter 5: Can (post)colonial states deliver international criminal justice: The case of Zimbabwe Chapter 6: The ICC and international criminal justice in Zimbabwe Chapter 7: Rethinking and reconstituting the international criminal justice system: Towards a cure which heals the patient
Biography
Everisto Benyera is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of South Africa.
