The ICC must not further destroy its credibility by cooperating with the sorts of bad actors who should be before a court themselves.
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Unless member states try to solve the contradictions in expectations, UN peacekeeping will not be fit for purpose in the future.
The number of personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping has slowly been decreasing.
Cooperation with the Sudanese government to try al-Bashir could amount to legitimising those who themselves have been implicated in genocide
Sudanese protesters against al-Bashir’s regime have scored an important victory. But there’s a long way to go before democracy is restored.
For Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, ‘never again’ was ‘a prayer, a promise, a vow’. Unfortunately, this vow is all too often broken.
Kofi Annan’s tenure began after the reintroduction of two important international security lexicons – peacebuilding and human security.
We looked at ten countries in East Africa and found poverty and politics were much more important drivers of conflict and displacement than climate change.
Foreign MPs can strengthen the message that violence towards the Rohingya has consequences for Myanmar’s future relations with European countries.
Slashing funding will put carefully crafted initiatives at risk – and people will die because of it.
Arguably Africa’s most powerful diplomatic player, South Africa is now backing out of the world’s most important mechanism for bringing war criminals to justice.
A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.
South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC could have mere symbolic value. The country will continue to have obligations to binding decisions taken by the UN Security Council – including those pertaining to the court.
The South African government’s failure to arrest Omar al-Bashir flies in the face of the Constitutional Court’s decision in 2014 that South Africa has a duty to abide by its international obligations.
The attempt to arrest al-Bashir is the first time a court in an ICC member state has come to answering the question whether a sitting head of state can be detained and handed over to the ICC.
Omar al-Bashir left South Africa as a court dragged its feet over whether to stop him. This is probably illegal – and it’s par for the course.
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of History, Colgate University
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Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Visiting Professor University of Buckingham, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Chercheure-associée au Centre Thucydide, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Professor in International Law, NRF Research Chair in International Law, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of History, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Global Security, RMIT University
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PhD candidate in Government, University of Essex
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Reader, City, University of London
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Researcher in conflict, peace and security, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Economics, Newcastle University
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Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
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Lecturer, Strathmore Law School, Strathmore University
