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7 - Catalysing Opportunity

Complementarity and Domestic Proceedings

from Part II - The ICC in Uganda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Christian M. De Vos
Affiliation:
Physicians for Human Rights, New York
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Summary

This chapter considers domestic criminal proceedings in Uganda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and queries to what extent ICC interventions have catalysed them. As further evidence of the catalysing effect that the ICC’s engagement has had on non-state actors, in particular, the chapter highlights the efforts of Kenyan civil society to pursue other forms of civil litigation as part of the logic of complementarity. Similarly, in the DRC, the use of mobile military courts supported by international NGOs and donors has been a civil society innovation, often invoked as ‘complementary’ to ICC intervention. While not connected to the court in a formal way, these proceedings constitute the largest number of domestic trials for international crimes undertaken by an ICC situation country to date. Finally, the procedural history of the sole trial to thus far come before Uganda’s courts in relation to the ICC’s investigations - that of former LRA commander (and child soldier) Thomas Kwoyelo - is examined. It highlights the vexed relationship between state power and complementarity, demonstrating how formal ‘compliance’ can lead to outcomes that are themselves at odds with human rights norms.

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Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance
The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
, pp. 238 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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