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| Title: | The future of international criminal justice: civil society, complementarity and the case of South Africa |
| Author: | Du Plessis, Max |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Periodical: | African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128) |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 17-30 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | international criminal law civil society government policy |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2010.539808 |
| Abstract: | After the press reported in early May 2009 that the South African government had apparently invited President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan - by then wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for grave crimes committed by his government's officers and soldiers - to the inauguration of Jacob Zuma as South Africa's new president on 9 May, South African civil society responded swiftly. As it turned out, al-Bashir did not attend, but civil society organizations concerned took the proactive step of briefing barristers to prepare court application papers in the event that al-Bashir did arrive and the South African government failed to act. This article demonstrates that a vital ingredient for the success of international criminal justice will be the strength and advocacy of civil society actors in demanding action from law enforcement authorities in the incorporation and operationalization of a State's (or continent's) commitment to international criminal justice. What is clear is that Africa is where international criminal justice is taking stride. And South Africa, through a combination of its progressive ICC implementation legislation and its leading role on a continent whose regional body has shown a resistance to the ICC, has been placed at the heart of the action. Notes, ref., sum. (p. VI) [Journal abstract, edited] |
