Monthly Archives: June 2008
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What if Ocampo Indicts Bashir? 3
It is not difficult to imagine what might happen if the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against the president of Sudan. One only has ... -
What if Ocampo Indicts Bashir? 2
Some serious thinking is called for on the work of the ICC and its implications for accountability for mass atrocities, especially in Africa. There are no ... -
What if Ocampo Indicts Bashir? 1
This is a hypothetical question in view of how methodical the Chief Prosecutor is in choosing the suspects he intends to investigate and the time at ... -
Imagine if Luis Moreno-Ocampo Were to Indict President Omar al Bashir
Imagine if the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, were to issue an arrest warrant against Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir on charges ... -
Abusing “Genocide”: Why Comparisons with the Holocaust Mislead
Earlier this year in the run up to the release of the anti Islam “˜film’ Fitna by the Dutch maverick right-wing politician Geert Wilders, the leading ... -
Ocampo’s Gauntlet to the UN Security Council
Tragedy is the conflict of rights and there is no greater and more painful tragedy than the clash of fundamental rights. This drama is about to ... -
Shame and Violence: Insight from Complex Emergencies
In Complex Emergencies David Keen draws upon James Gilligan’s work on the psychological motivations of the most violent killers in American gaols as a source of ... -
Complex Emergencies: David Keen Responds
First of all, I would like the thank Zoe Marriage, Michael Barnett and Angela Raven-Roberts for taking the trouble to read the book, and for their ... -
Designing Limbo: IDP Camps and Urban Planning
Jim Lewis has a fascinating article in today’s New York Times–in the Architecture section. It’s called “The Exigent City” and poses the question, why are refugee ... -
The Islam and the “Ism” in Sudanese Islamism
Posted by Heather Sharkey In this careful and engagingly written analysis of Hasan al-Turabi’s decade in power, Abdullahi A. Gallab concludes that the experience of Sudan ...