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This blog has presented many arguments as to how the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against President Bashir has become yet another obstacle to peace in Sudan. ICC officials usually counter such accusations with the glib line that their mandate

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Alex appeared today, along with Mark Schneider of the International Crisis Group, on Kojo Nmandi’s show for NPR. Alex clashed with Mark on the issue of whether one should use a “scalpel” or a “hatchet” to remove Bashir from power. You can listen to the audio online; here are a few choice excerpts. [...] Continue reading →

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At a moment like this, in which the ICC and the P3 have massively increased their threat against the Government of Sudan, which has retaliated in a manner that causes a new crisis, it is tempting for the UN and

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The expulsions of humanitarians are a catastrophe for the victims of the Darfur war, a fact upon which Luis Moreno Ocampo might well reflect given the requirement of the Rome Statute that prosecutions be in the interests of victims. If

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I am in total agreement with you that the arrest and indictment of Omer El-Bashir will not bring peace to Sudan or bring an end to the problem of Darfur, however, I will not deny that I welcomed the decision

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The die is cast. Sudan has entered uncharted waters as a result of the ICC arrest warrant against President Omar al Bashir. And indeed it is a nothing less than roll of the dice, a gamble with unknown consequences. Yesterday

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As Khartoum holds its collective breath for the warrant for the President’s arrest we all know is coming on Wednesday (the ICC said as much with its Kafka-esque announcement this week that it will make an announcement next week), it

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Hagan’s and Rymond-Richmond’s Darfur and the Crime of Genocide contains shattering statements from direct witnesses and victims of the Darfur conflict. In addition, it provides interesting criminological perspectives on the crime of genocide. Yet where it tries to link the

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Sadia al Imam writes The allocation of responsibility for issues of justice, peace and democracy between the OTP and the UN Security Council is an important one. The Bashir case shows that this allocation needs more attention. The Prosecutor is

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Daniel Agundo writes: Genocide may generally be a crime committed as an outcome of a political ideology or plan for violent societal transformation, requiring a socio-political theory to explain it, but it need not always be so. An individual can

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