The Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal by Serena Sharma
By Serena Sharma
This e-book offers an account of ways the accountability to guard (R2P) and the overseas legal court docket (ICC) have been utilized in Kenya.
In the aftermath of the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007, Kenya descended into its worst predicament given that independence. The 2007-08 post-election main issue in Kenya used to be one of the first occasions during which there has been an entice either the accountability to guard and a accountability to prosecute. regardless of efforts to make sure compatibility among R2P and the ICC, the 2 have been faraway from coherent consequently, because the measures designed to guard the inhabitants in Kenya undermined the efforts to prosecute perpetrators. This e-book will spotlight how the African Union-sponsored mediation technique successfully introduced an finish to 8 weeks of bloodshed, whereas concurrently entrenching these fascinated with orchestrating the violence. Having secured positions of strength, politicians bearing accountability for the violence got down to block prosecutions at either the household and overseas degrees, finally best the situations opposed to them to resolve. As this ebook will demonstrate, by way of employing the equipment of the kingdom as a defend opposed to prosecution, the govt. of Kenya reverted to an method of sovereignty that either R2P and the ICC have been in particular designed to counteract.
This booklet might be of curiosity to scholars of the accountability to guard, humanitarian intervention, African politics, warfare and clash experiences and IR/Security reports in general.
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