RT Article
T1 Judicializing economic violence as means of dismantling the structural causes of atrocity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 14
IS 3
SP 423
OP 442
A1 Sehmi, Anushka
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1748075004
AB The International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted three militia commanders - Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Germain Katanga and Bosco Ntaganda - for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ituri, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, none of these convictions have resulted in a cessation of violence in the region, as recent events have illustrated. Although the ICC is one initiative aimed at securing peace in Ituri, the extent of the ICC’s engagement with this particular context presents a good opportunity to reflect on its limited contribution and to illustrate the structural violence problems that underlie most, if not all, ICC situations and cases in Africa. Furthermore, it will be argued that the ICC can redeem itself from its embeddedness within the liberal peacebuilding paradigm by judicialising the economic realities of violence, thereby combating some of the worst effects of structural violence.
NO Literaturhinweise
K1 Politischer Konflikt
K1 Innenpolitik
K1 Strukturelle Gewalt
K1 Strafgericht
K1 Transitional Justice
K1 Strafverfolgung
K1 Friedenskonsolidierung
K1 Demokratische Republik Kongo
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa021