- Title
- Critique of the International Criminal Court's Approach to International Criminal Justice in Selected African Jurisdictions
- Creator
- Muringani, Tinotenda M (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9758-1179)
- Subject
- Justice
- Subject
- International criminal courts
- Subject
- Criminal Law
- Date Issued
- 2020-06
- Date
- 2020-06
- Type
- Master's/Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/6445
- Identifier
- vital:46236
- Description
- In 2002, the requisite number of ratifications to the Rome Statute was met, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was subsequently born. Just 16 years into its existence, the court finds itself under threat from the sovereign countries that at one stage, expressed their desire to improve the fight against impunity through a permanent international criminal court. But what has caused this shift? The ICC has been criticised for being a pro-African prosecution forum, this inference is drawn from the demographical distribution of the cases before the ICC that puts a significant majority of cases in Africa whereas other possible jurisdictions with similar cases have been left untouched by the ICC until recently. This study seeks to provide an analysis of the relationship between African states and the ICC. The study will provide a historical perspective on the development of International Criminal Law leading to the establishment of the International Criminal Court. This is followed by an analysis of the relations of the ICC and African states through three case studies of Kenya, South Africa and Sudan. The study will go further to provide an analysis of challenges that the ICC has faced with dealing with cases before and finally seek to explore the possibility of an alternative forum to prosecute perpetrators of international crimes centred in the African continent.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2020
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (147 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law/Department of Legal Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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