Adam Branch

Adam Branch is assistant professor of political science at San Diego State University and has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. His work has examined the politics of humanitarian and human rights intervention into civil war in Africa. He has published widely in political science and international studies journals and recently finished a book manuscript on the civil war and Western intervention in northern Uganda. In addition to his academic work, he has also worked extensively with local human rights organizations in Uganda.

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

What the ICC Review Conference Can’t Fix

At a meeting with Africanist scholars in London in 2007, Luis Moreno-Ocampo faced tough questioning over why the ICC had decided to pursue only the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and ignore the Ugandan government’s alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly its devastating policy of mass forced displacement and internment.  Finally, his patience apparently [...]

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