Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (2)
Pacification “NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE” The second main argument used in support of the International Criminal Court is that there can be “no peace without justice.” ... -
Humanitarian aid and the International Criminal Court: Grounds for divorce (1)
Introduction Officially, the thirteen NGOs expelled from Sudan after an international arrest warrant was issued against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir were being punished for their “violations ... -
Response to ‘A Waste of Hope’
The following letter from a senior ICC official has been published in World Affairs in response to the article by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal ... -
Kenya: The Normalisation of Violence
Writing more than twenty years ago about Idi Amin’s Uganda, Ali Mazrui observed that Everyone was talking about the tyrant. I suggested that more people had died ... -
Kenya: DIY Violence is Corrosive of Nationhood
It is not often that participants in ethnic cleansing confess to it openly, but William ole Ntimama has managed it twice: in a 1996 interview, and ... -
Kenya Post-2008: The calm before a storm?
Nineteen months have passed since Kenya’s contested 2007 election, when the rapid re-inauguration of President Mwai Kibaki heralded an outburst of post-election violence – characterised by ... -
Kenya’s Spectre of Impunity and the Politics of the Special Tribunal
On 9 July 2009, Kofi Annan the former chief mediator in the aftermath of Kenya's post-electoral violence, transferred an undisclosed list of senior politicians to the ... -
Watu Wazima: A gender analysis of forced male circumcisions during Kenya’s post-election violence.
tories of men being forcibly circumcised and even castrated peppered news accounts of the madness that overtook Kenya in the aftermath of the December 2007 elections. ... -
Kenya: Our Possible Futures; Our Choices
We knew or should have known that it was coming. But somehow we thought or believed, as the most corrupt country in the region, that we ... -
Introduction-Kenya’s politics of violence and accountability
This forum offers a space where concerned Kenyans can come together with a range of experts, scholars, practitioners, and commentators to discuss fundamental questions about how ...