The ICC's Possible Deferral of the LRA Case to Uganda

Apuuli, Kasaija Phillip

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“…Civil society and the ARLPI, in particular, have consistently argued that the conflict in northern Uganda can only be ended through dialogue, forgiveness, and reconciliation. The government, on the other hand, has argued for a military solution, and when this failed, it invited the ICC to commence an investigation ‘in the situation concerning the LRA in Northern and Western Uganda’ (Apuuli 2008:802). The ICC involvement in northern Uganda elicited opposition from civil society groups.…”

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Peace over Justice: The Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) vs. the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Northern Uganda

Apuuli

2011

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Peace over Justice: The Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) vs. the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Northern Uganda

Apuuli

2011

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“…( Prosecutor v. Ongwen , 2016e: 68)The Pre-Trial Chamber’s chosen depiction feeds into a narrative that the current government of Uganda has projected for a long time, namely that the resistance organizations against the national authorities pursue brutal and perverted policies (cf. Apuuli, 2008: 801). In this view, the LRA’s policies have nothing to do with the setting in which the conflict took place.…”

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The International Criminal Trial as a Site for Contesting Historical and Political Narratives: The Case of Dominic Ongwen

Hassellind

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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This paper considers how the international criminal trial emerges as a site for contesting historical and political narratives, and how the proceedings against Dominic Ongwen in the International Criminal Court gives us yet another opportunity to do so. It focuses on how the criminal trial appears to reinforce the hegemony of some contested historical narratives over others in attempting to deal with the past. It is suggested that the conflict in Uganda as well as what is currently happening in the Ongwen trial cannot be understood in isolation from, on the one hand, interregional and factional struggles within the Ugandan territory and, on the other hand, a postcolonial logic. Departing from this nexus, the paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the strategy of rupture as developed by Jacques Vergès. By scrutinizing the legal strategies employed by Ongwen and his defense team, the paper argues that their strategies demonstrate the ways in which historical and political narratives are susceptible to ‘rupture’ by counternarratives put forth by defendants who refuse to play their part in the global justice drama by pointing to the struggle for larger contextual issues. In the setting of the Ongwen trial, this paper argues that by tapping into the victim-perpetrator narrative, Ongwen’s defense team are, wittingly or unwittingly, ‘rupturing’ the binaries in international criminal law. The paper concludes by arguing that the Court may need to find a new approach to ‘courtroom historiography’ if it is going to survive, either with or without the Global South.

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The ICC and the Democracy Paradox: The Museveni Affair and the Kenyatta Exception

Cacciatori

2024

The International Criminal Court and the Prosecution of Sitting Heads of State

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The ICC's Possible Deferral of the LRA Case to Uganda

Cited by 26 publications

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Peace over Justice: The Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) vs. the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Northern Uganda

Peace over Justice: The Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative (ARLPI) vs. the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Northern Uganda

The International Criminal Trial as a Site for Contesting Historical and Political Narratives: The Case of Dominic Ongwen

The ICC and the Democracy Paradox: The Museveni Affair and the Kenyatta Exception

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