The Congo trials in the international criminal court /
By: Gaskins, Richard.
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BookPublisher: United Kingdom ; University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS : 2020Description: ix, 463 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781108488013.Subject(s): International Criminal CourtDDC classification: 341.68 GAS 2020 Summary: This is the first in-depth study of the first three ICC trials: an engaging, accessible text meant for specialists and students, for legal advocates and a wide range of professionals concerned with diverse cultures, human rights, and restorative justice. It introduces international justice and courtroom trials in practical terms, offering a balanced view on persistent tensions and controversies. Separate chapters analyze the working realities of central African armed conflicts, finding reasons for their surprising resistance to ICC legal formulas. The book dissects the Court's structural dynamics, which were designed to steer an elusive middle course between high moral ideals and hard political realities. Detailed chapters provide vivid accounts of courtroom encounters with four Congolese suspects. The mixed record of convictions, acquittals, dissents, and appeals, resulting from these trials, provides a map of distinct fault-lines within the ICC legal code, and suggests a rocky path ahead for the Court's next ventures.
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Contents
Acknowledgments page viii
A Laboratory for Global Justice... 1
Testing a New Court... 5
1. Spreading Justice to Distant Conflicts... 7
Balancing Politics, Morality, and Culture... 29
Back in Ituri... 61
3. Ituri in the Web of Chaos: The Micro View... 65
4. Structures of Local conflict: The Micro View... 93
The Bridge to the Hague... 129
5. Battling Impunity in Ituri... 131
6. ICC Structures, Dynamics, Tensions... 162
The Congo Trials... 207
7. The Trial of Thomas Lubanga... 211
8. The Trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo... 291
9. The Trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba...375
Observations... 448
Index...456
This is the first in-depth study of the first three ICC trials: an engaging, accessible text meant for specialists and students, for legal advocates and a wide range of professionals concerned with diverse cultures, human rights, and restorative justice. It introduces international justice and courtroom trials in practical terms, offering a balanced view on persistent tensions and controversies. Separate chapters analyze the working realities of central African armed conflicts, finding reasons for their surprising resistance to ICC legal formulas. The book dissects the Court's structural dynamics, which were designed to steer an elusive middle course between high moral ideals and hard political realities. Detailed chapters provide vivid accounts of courtroom encounters with four Congolese suspects. The mixed record of convictions, acquittals, dissents, and appeals, resulting from these trials, provides a map of distinct fault-lines within the ICC legal code, and suggests a rocky path ahead for the Court's next ventures.
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