Politics
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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 ... -
Kenya: The Normalisation of Violence
Writing more than twenty years ago about Idi Amin’s Uganda, Ali Mazrui observed that Everyone was talking about the tyrant. I suggested that more people ... -
Kenya: DIY Violence is Corrosive of Nationhood
It is not often that participants in ethnic cleansing confess to it openly, but William ole Ntimama has managed it twice: in a 1996 ... -
Kenya Post-2008: The calm before a storm?
Nineteen months have passed since Kenya’s contested 2007 election, when the rapid re-inauguration of President Mwai Kibaki heralded an outburst of post-election violence – ... -
Kenya’s Spectre of Impunity and the Politics of the Special Tribunal
On 9 July 2009, Kofi Annan the former chief mediator in the aftermath of Kenya's post-electoral violence, transferred an undisclosed list of senior politicians ... -
Watu Wazima: A gender analysis of forced male circumcisions during Kenya’s post-election violence.
tories of men being forcibly circumcised and even castrated peppered news accounts of the madness that overtook Kenya in the aftermath of the December ... -
Kenya: Our Possible Futures; Our Choices
We knew or should have known that it was coming. But somehow we thought or believed, as the most corrupt country in the region, ...