African Arguments
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Kenya: Truth, Justice, Reconciliation, and… Land Tenure Reform?
The Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) is mandated to enquire into human rights violations, including community displacements, settlements, evictions, historical land injustices, ... -
Senator Kerry: Ask Useful Questions of General Gration
The Save Darfur Coalition, in one of its circular emails, has again given us an opportunity–in this case to urge U.S. senators to ask ... -
The “Seven Deadly Sins” of a Peacemaker
Peacemaking is an art””but increasingly we can apply sound measurements to rate a mediator’s efforts. In the run-up to the long-awaited announcement of the ... -
Abyei: Not a People’s Partition
Last week, the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal, sitting in The Hague, made a technical decision on the status of the findings of the Abyei Boundary ... -
The Road To Hell (In Africa) Is Paved With Good (Western) Intentions
The victory of retired general and former acting president Mohamed Ould Abelaziz in the 18 July presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ... -
Sudan: Re-Opening the Mind of the Public
Saviors and Survivors became instantly controversial, probably more from the Darfur context and conflict it seeks to address than for its detailed scholarship and ... -
Sudan: Bringing Back the State
Twenty years ago I heard the story of a southern Sudanese villager who stumbled out of the war zone into a small town in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...