Ghost of the Malabo Protocol: Political conditions influencing African countries' refusals to extradite International Criminal Court suspects
Journal: African Human Rights Law Journal
Year: 2025

For strategic constituencies, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court facilitates the pursuit ofinternational criminal justice's instrumental goals. Such impacts on a post-conflict country include restoring peace and security. Significantly, the International Criminal Court is constrained to pursue international criminal justice while respecting complementarity. A rational approach, therefore, measures the degree to which the ICC must not merely satisfy deontological retributive goa