Archive for 2010

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Will the new constitution lead to a more peaceful Kenya?

posted by RAS-editor

Wednesday, 4 August 2010, will indisputably be a date for future generations of Kenyans to remember. Following more than 20 years of debate and several attempts at passing a new constitution, Kenya finally succeeded.

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

International Justice in Africa – Debate Summary

posted by Lydiah Kemunto Bosire

This debate is organized by Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR), working in partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice – Africa, and The Darfur Consortium. For PDF documents of the debate please go to http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/otjr.php?show=currentDebate10. To participate please follow the submissions guidelines below and send an 800-1500 word contribution to the debate editor: lydiah-kemunto.bosire@politics.ox.ac.uk.

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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

International Criminal Court in Africa: “alea jacta est”

posted by Olivier Kambala wa Kambala

African countries are critical actors for the International Criminal Court (ICC). While it is clear that Africa forms the largest bloc of ICC member states, and that this year’s review conference of the Rome Statute has taken place in Uganda, other facts are often overlooked.

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Monday, June 21st, 2010

Addressing the Post-Election Violence: Micro-Level Perspectives on Transitional Justice in Kenya*

posted by David Backer

The necessity of transitional justice in Kenya and the merits of certain institutional mechanisms in particular have been vigorously debated in this forum, as well as within the country itself. In both of these contexts, the perspectives of victims of past violence have received only modest attention.

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Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Thabo Mbeki on Africa’s Intellectual Leadership

posted by Alex de Waal

President Thabo Mbeki, speaking on Africa Day at the Thabo Mbeki Leadership Institute, emphasized a necessary precondition if Africa is to claim the 21st century, namely, “the need for Africa to recapture the intellectual space to define its future, and therefore the imperative to develop its intellectual capital!”
The text of his presentation is available here: [...]

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