Politicization of international criminal interventions and the impasse of transitional justice : a comparative study of Uganda and Kenya
Journal: Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick)
Year: 2018

Since the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) establishment in 2002, its interventions in African situations have produced a mix of results. Whereas many observers have hailed the ICC’s forays onto the continent for expanding the avenues of justice for mass atrocities, there are also political connotations to some of its interventions, as evidenced in narratives of selectivity and neo-colonialism. Building on the latter impacts of the Court’s interventions in Africa, this thesis seeks to discer