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The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes

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This chapter explains the rationale for the study, the research questions, the study’s analytical framework, and the nexus between international accountability and peace. It provides a brief outline of the establishment and challenges of the ICC, the major theories of punishment discussed in the book, the structure of the book, the doctrine of complementarity, the punishment provisions of the Rome Statute, the methodology of the study, the main findings of the study and some key terms like: peace, peace process, justice, and conflict transformation. It also highlights the tensions and challenges of deploying an international Court in national settings.

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    De Vos, Christian, Kendall, Sara and Stahn, Carten. 2015. “Introduction”. In Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions, edited by Christian de Vos, Sara Kendall, and Carsten Stahn, 1–20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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    https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails. Accessed 18 October 2018.

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    Statement of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued on 5 December 2014, https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=otp-statement-05-12-2014-2&ln=en. Accessed 18 October 2018.

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    Situation in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in the Case of the Prosecutor V. Simone Gbagbo. Decision on Côte d’Ivoire’s challenge to the admissibility of the case against Simone Gbagbo (No.: ICC-02/11-01/12). https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2014_10019.PDF. Accessed 18 October 2018.

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    The Prosecutor v. Walter Osapiri Barasa, ICC-01/09-01/13 (The arrest warrant was issued under seal against Mr. Barasa on 2 August 2013 and unsealed on 2 October 2013). (The case “remains in the Pre-Trial stage, pending the suspect’s arrest or voluntary appearance before the Court”.); The Prosecutor v. Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett, ICC-01/09-01/15 (The warrant of arrest was issued under “seal against Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett on 10 March 2015 and unsealed on 10 September 2015. Accused are not in the Court’s custody. The case remains in the Pre-Trial stage, pending the suspects’ arrest or voluntary appearance before the Court”.

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    Statement of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on 6 April 2016, https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=otp-stat-160406. Accessed 19 October 2018.

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    http://www.iccnow.org/index.php?mod=romeimplementation. Accessed 19 October 2018.

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    The Trial Chamber for the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 26 April 2012 found Charles Taylor guilty on all eleven counts, on “the modes of liability of planning of crimes and for aiding and abetting of crimes committed by rebel forces in Sierra Leone”, and on 30 May 2012, the former Liberian president was given a single sentence of 50 years in prison. The Appeals Chamber upheld Charles Taylor’s conviction and 50-year sentence (The Prosecutor vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor, SCSL-03-01-T). http://rscsl.org/Taylor.html. Accessed 19 October 2018.

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    Interview with a researcher from Kenya, 2014.

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    E-Interview with a member of the defence team of Uhuru Kenyatta, 2015.

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    The Prosecutor v. William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang, ICC-01/09-01/11.

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    ICC-01/09-02/11-383 of 30 January 2012.

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    ICC-01/11-01/11-466 of 11 October 2013.

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    Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo ICC-01/04-01/06.

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    Office of the Prosecutor Strategic Plan June, 2012–2015, 9, https://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/OTP-Strategic-Plan-2013.pdf. Accessed 23 October 2018.

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    Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga ICC-01/04-01/07.

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    Decision on Sentence pursuant to article 76 of the Statute, ICC-01/04-01/06-2901, 13 July 2012.

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    Decision on Sentence pursuant to article 76 of the Statute, ICC-01/04-01/07-3484-tENG-Corr, 23 May 2014.

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    Decision on Sentence pursuant to article 76 of the Statute, ICC-01/05-01/08-3399, 21 June 2016.

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    Judgment and Sentence, The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, CC-01/12-01/15-171, 27 September 2016.

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Malu, L.N. (2019). Introduction. In: The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes . Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19905-0_1

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