Laurent Gbagbos Trial And The Indictment Of The International Criminal Court

Author : Gnaka Lagoké
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896359
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laurent Gbagbo‘s Trial and the Indictment of the International Criminal Court written by Gnaka Lagoké and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Criminal Court (ICC), created in 2002 to combat impunity, projects a sense of unfairness and stirs an unending debate. A trial before the court epitomizes the controversy surrounding it, perceived as a neocolonialist tool in the hands of the most powerful nations. This research critically examines the trial of the former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo. The two-decade crisis in Ivory Coast was a series of armed, diplomatic, and political conflicts in which human rights were violated by all sides. Military confrontation resumed as a result of an electoral stalemate that followed a controversial presidential election in the fall of 2010. The most atrocious human rights abuse was perpetrated at the end of March 2011 by the rebel forces backed by the French and the United Nations troops: the massacre of Duékoué. In one day, hundreds of Laurent Gbagbo’s followers were killed. However, the ICC undertook a selective prosecution against Gbagbo’s camp. After a trial of eight years, Laurent Gbagbo was finally acquitted. The news of his unanticipated acquittal shocked the world. Later, that decision was overturned and transformed into freedom with binding and coercive conditions by the Appeals Chamber, which had succumbed to political pressure. The former president of Ivory Coast spent months of confinement in Belgium until the Appeals Chamber rebutted the prosecutor’s appeal against his release and confirmed his total acquittal and that of Blé Goudé. He eventually went back to Ivory Coast on June 17, 2021. The trial of Laurent Gbagbo before the ICC, despite his acquittal (a tardy one), reflects a series of biases germane to international law and international justice, such as the victor’s justice stance, the conflict between national law and international law, the question of sovereignty, and the issue of lawfare. The trial of Laurent Gbagbo, which was the hallmark of the selective international justice system embedded in unfairness, led to a historical landmark with his shocking acquittal, which led to the indictment of the International Court, whose fate has thus been sealed before history.

Author : Gnaka Lagoké
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781622738731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laurent Gbagbo's Trial and the Indictment of the International Criminal Court written by Gnaka Lagoké and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Criminal Court (ICC), created in 2002 to combat impunity, projects a sense of unfairness and stirs an unending debate. A trial before the court epitomizes the controversy surrounding it, perceived as a neocolonialist tool in the hands of the most powerful nations. This research critically examines the trial of the former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo. The two-decade crisis in Ivory Coast was a series of armed, diplomatic, and political conflicts in which human rights were violated by all sides. Military confrontation resumed as a result of an electoral stalemate that followed a controversial presidential election in the fall of 2010. The most atrocious human rights abuse was perpetrated at the end of March 2011 by the rebel forces backed by the French and the United Nations troops: the massacre of Duékoué. In one day, hundreds of Laurent Gbagbo's followers were killed. However, the ICC undertook a selective prosecution against Gbagbo's camp. After a trial of eight years, Laurent Gbagbo was finally acquitted. The news of his unanticipated acquittal shocked the world. Later, that decision was overturned and transformed into freedom with binding and coercive conditions by the Appeals Chamber, which had succumbed to political pressure. The former president of Ivory Coast spent months of confinement in Belgium until the Appeals Chamber rebutted the prosecutor's appeal against his release and confirmed his total acquittal and that of Blé Goudé. He eventually went back to Ivory Coast on June 17, 2021. The trial of Laurent Gbagbo before the ICC, despite his acquittal (a tardy one), reflects a series of biases germane to international law and international justice, such as the victor's justice stance, the conflict between national law and international law, the question of sovereignty, and the issue of lawfare. The trial of Laurent Gbagbo, which was the hallmark of the selective international justice system embedded in unfairness, led to a historical landmark with his shocking acquittal, which led to the indictment of the International Court, whose fate has thus been sealed before history.

Author : Richard H. Steinberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900438409X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals written by Richard H. Steinberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals is a collection of essays by prominent international criminal law commentators, responsive to questions of interest to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Topics include: - Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Obtaining Evidence - Outreach: Challenges Communicating with Victims, Witnesses, and Others - ICC State Party Withdrawals - Measuring the ICC’s Performance - The Crime of Aggression: Scope and Anticipated Difficulties - The Rome Statute at Twenty: Reform Proposals

Author : Geert-Jan Knoops
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 904742901X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Law of International Criminal Tribunals written by Geert-Jan Knoops and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Introduction to the Law of International Criminal Tribunals Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops offers an overview of the basic topics in international criminal law (ICL). It discusses main characteristics of International Criminal Tribunals (ICTs), as well as definitions of international crimes. The book will delve into issues of jurisdiction and complementarity, liability principles and specialized defences. Other topics are: due process rights, evidence, trials in absentia and State cooperation. A new chapter is devoted to the geopolitical effects of international criminal prosecutions. The second revised edition includes a chapter on the “new” crime of aggression and is updated with the most recent developments in ICL. The book is essential to everyone becoming familiar with the basic topics and challenges within ICL.

Author : Gerhard Werle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462650292
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the International Criminal Court written by Gerhard Werle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the controversial relationship between African states, represented by the African Union, and the International Criminal Court. This relationship started promisingly but has been in crisis in recent years. The overarching aim of the book is to analyze and discuss the achievements and shortcomings of interventions in Africa by the International Criminal Court as well as to develop proposals for cooperation between international courts, domestic courts outside Africa and courts within Africa. For this purpose, the book compiles contributions by practitioners of the International Criminal Court and by role players of the judiciary of African countries as well as by academic experts.

Author : Fred Aja Agwu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000733939
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and International Criminal Justice written by Fred Aja Agwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of crimes under international law, radical evils, in a number of African states. This overview informs a critical analysis of the debates surrounding the African Union’s call for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court and proposes a way forward with a more pertinent role for the Court. The work critically analyzes the arguments around withdrawal from the ICC and the extension of the jurisdiction of the African Court into criminal matters. It is held that this was not intended in the spirit of complementarity as envisaged by the Rome Statute, and is subject to political calculation and manipulation by national governments. Recasting the ICC as a court of second instance would provide a stronger institutional and jurisdictional regime. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, African studies, and genocide studies.

Author : Laurent Gbagbo
Publisher : Max Milo
ISBN 13 : 231501283X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Stand for Truth and Justice written by Laurent Gbagbo and published by Max Milo. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ousted from power by the French army on April 11, 2011, following the disputed presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire of November 2010, Laurent Gbagbo was charged with crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 5, 2011. This book, written from 2012 onwards, thanks to numerous prison visits and interviews, is the only one to have been produced with the participation of the Ivorian president during his incarceration and trial. This unique testimony is more than ever a document for history, because it sheds light on the manipulations of the 2010 elections, the collusion between Nicolas Sarkozy's France and the ICC to get rid of Laurent Gbagbo, and the stalling tactics and maneuvers that marred "Gbagbogate." Over meetings with François Mattei, Laurent Gbagbo looks back on his seven years in prison, explains what they mean and shares his vision for the future—that of a free man, come what may. Laurent Gbagbo, historian and university professor, has campaigned all his life for the establishment of true democracy in his country, Côte d’Ivoire. He was elected President of the Republic in October 2000. His struggle to give meaning to the word “independence” has always pitted him against powerful interests. François Mattei is a journalist and author of numerous books.

Author : Mark Kersten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082945
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice in Conflict written by Mark Kersten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.

Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198705166
Total Pages : 1441 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court written by Carsten Stahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform.

Author : Mark Klamberg
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN 13 : 8283481010
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court written by Mark Klamberg and published by Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: