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dc.contributor.authorSipalla, Humphrey
dc.contributor.authorStormes, James
dc.contributor.authorOpongo, Elias
dc.contributor.authorKnox, Peter
dc.contributor.authorWansamo, Kifle
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-14T13:54:25Z
dc.date.available2022-01-14T13:54:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.kabarak.ac.ke/handle/123456789/778
dc.description.abstractThis paper attempts an analysis of the history and purposes of international law, its problematic interaction with international politics and the effects thereof on transitional justice and international criminal law in Africa. At the heart of its thesis is the assertion that irreconcilable results proceed from a paradoxical interaction that plays out thus: while politics begets law, law’s role is to restrain political discretion. This paradox is then applied to the subject that is the very core of the current international law regime, the aim to eliminate the role of war as a last resort option in international politics and replace it with an obligation to seek judicial resolution of disputes as the ultimate form of pacific international relations. This paper is in two main parts. The first is an historical overview of the interaction of international law and politics and how international law views its role in politically charged controversies. The second part focuses on the most debated question in transitional justice: international criminal justice. Having concluded that international law and politics remain irreconcilable, this latter part questions whether African objections to head of state accountability for mass atrocities and the setting up of parallel institutions constitute a coherent application of the role of politics in international law. We also question whether African attempts to inversely use politics to restrict law can succeed.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKABARAK UNIVERSITYen_US
dc.subjecthistorical irreconcilabilityen_US
dc.subjectinternational lawen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjectinternational criminal justiceen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleThe historical irreconcilability of international law and politics and its implications for international criminal justice in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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