Civil society and international criminal justice in Africa
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities
By: editors Sarah Williams and Hannah Woolaver, general editor Graham Bradfield
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Claremont [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781485118596
Subjects: International criminal law; International criminal courts; Civil society
Notes: First published as Acta Juridica 2016.

Published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Richard Goldstone; title: International criminal law, the International Criminal Court, and civil society / John Dugard; title: Prosecutorial discretion and victims' rights at the International Criminal Court : demarcating the battle lines / Carla Ferstman; title: Civil society and amicus curiae interventions in the International Criminal Court / Sarah Williams and Emma Palmer; title: Challenges for international criminal justice in Africa and the role of civil society / Elise Keppler; title: Back to the future? : civil society, the "turn to complementarity" in Africa and some critical concerns / Christopher Gevers; title: Partners in complementarity : the role of civil society in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in South Africa / Hannah Woolaver; title: Civil society, "positive complementarity" and the "Torture Docket" case / Max du Plessis and Christopher Gevers Crisis and contradiction : justice reform, civil society and Zimbabwe's long transition / Mark Shaw; title: An essential intervention : civil society responses to redressing and preventing violence against women in post-apartheid South Africa / Andrea Durbach; title: The role of African civil society in shaping national transitional justice agendas and policies / Hugo van der Merwe and Jasmina Brankovic; title: The case for a victim-friendly ICC : reparations and the conflict in Northern Uganda / Špela Kunej and Victor Ochen; title: A call to action : national bar associations as key civil society actors for the promotion of international criminal justice in Africa / Tosin Osasona; title: The Zimbabwe torture case : reflections on domestic litigation for international crimes in Africa / Angela Mudukuti.