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04 Nov Complementarity in Crisis: Uganda, Alternative Justice, and the International Criminal Court
[Alexander K.A. Greenawalt is an Associate Professor at Pace University School of Law] Let me start by thanking Opinio Juris and the Virginia Journal of International Law for hosting this online symposium. I am also honored that Mark Drumbl has graciously agreed to be my respondent. In 2005, the International Criminal Court issued warrants for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda’s murderous Lord’s Resistance Army, as well as four other high-level LRA suspects (two of whom reportedly have since died) to answer charges of crimes against humanity...
08 May Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
...Hyperactivated by social media, coming to town can be to the ‘real-time’ place of violence, but it also can be to the ubiquitous virtual space. ‘The town’ sits in an easily accessible every-any-where. Shouldn’t we think about the role of all the academics and activists and experts, armchair warriors with twitter handles, who market themselves, too, outrageously in outrage? This is the clicktivism phenomenon, which I have elsewhere noted in the context of child soldiers. You pick this up nicely with Kony 2012! But you remain pretty taciturn about the...
05 Jun Symposium on Reproductive Violence in International Law: A New Era of Accountability for Reproductive Violence at the ICC?
...in the context of the development of a Policy on Slavery Crimes. Additionally, charges of reproductive violence feature in the document containing the charges against LRA founder and leader Joseph Kony, issued earlier this year. Reproductive crimes were until recently relatively inconspicuous in international criminal law and were generally subsumed under the category of sexual violence, thereby neglecting the specific harm they inflict: the violation of an individual’s reproductive autonomy. This aspect was underscored by the Ongwen Trial Chamber which found that the evil committed by the crime of forced...
09 Feb Guilty on 61 Counts – What the Ongwen Verdict Indicates about the Limitations of Individual Criminal Responsibility for Mass Atrocities
...commit, such as the abductions of women and children (Ongwen Judgment, paras. 3097, 3113). Furthermore, intercepted radio communications indicated that Ongwen had personally communicated the results of particular attacks to Kony and the LRA leadership (Ibid., paras. 2911, 3010) and that the defendant had taken responsibility for some of those attacks (Ibid., para. 2963). Based on all of the available information the judges concluded that Ongwen’s actions were of such nature that they ‘could only have been undertaken intentionally’ (Ibid., para. 2865, emphasis added). Overall, the analysis of the judges’...22 Aug LRA Agrees to Protect Rare Wildlife
...posterity,” he told AFP. In addition to protecting the wildlife, the agreement includes assurances from LRA supremo Joseph Kony, who has been hiding in Garamba just over the DRC’s eastern border with Sudan for months, that his fighters would not attack game wardens. “We wish to assure the rangers in Garamba Park that, provided they properly identify themselves and not attack us, we undertake to fully cooperate with them,” says the pact, which was signed by Ojul on Sunday with Kony’s authority. There is no question that the LRA’s motives...