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Rebranding the State: Uganda's Strategic Use of the International Criminal Court

Freeland, Valerie

Development and change, 2015-03, Vol.46 (2), p.293-319 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Título:
    Rebranding the State: Uganda's Strategic Use of the International Criminal Court
  • Autor: Freeland, Valerie
  • Assuntos: Accountability ; Atrocities ; Borders ; Citizens ; Compliance ; Conflict ; Government ; Human Rights Violations ; International Court ; International Criminal Court ; Investigations ; Networks ; Problem solving ; Radical groups ; Resistance ; Studies ; Tribunals & commissions ; Uganda ; War crimes
  • É parte de: Development and change, 2015-03, Vol.46 (2), p.293-319
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    I would like to thank four anonymous reviewers for their generous and constructive feedback. Fieldwork for this article was made possible through funding from the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, as well as Northwestern's Program of African Studies and the Buffett Center for Comparative and International Research. I am grateful to William Reno, Ian Hurd, Mauro Gilli and Khairunnisa Mohamedali for their thoughtful comments and support.
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  • Descrição: ABSTRACT When governments invite the International Criminal Court (ICC) to conduct investigations within their own borders, they seem to indicate acceptance of global norms of accountability for wartime atrocities. The first of these self‐referrals came from Uganda, whose government requested investigation into its conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a conflict within which it, too, committed large‐scale human rights violations. This article argues that Uganda used the ICC to help solve a problem faced by many of the world's least powerful states, whose domestic politics are often structured through patron–client networks. Their rulers need to distribute basic state resources, including physical protection, to loyal clients without alienating donors who demand provision of these same resources by right to all citizens. By inviting external scrutiny and manipulating the investigative process, the Ugandan government received an international seal of approval for practices that the ICC would normally punish. This strategy has system‐wide consequences in that repeated mislabelling of rights violations as compliant with international norms causes the meaning of compliance to become incoherent, and norms are less able to constrain the behaviour of all states in the long run.
  • Editor: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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