International Criminal Court

Six years after the issuance of Omar al-Bashir’s arrest warrant, there doesn’t seem to be a Plan B

We examine the top 10 issues facing the International Criminal Court today. Do they signify a crisis for international justice, or have sufficient strides been made?

Does the ICC really have a bias toward prosecuting crimes in Africa?

Over 50 countries are pushing for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court. Why, asks Naomi Kikoler, is Canada not one?

The Ukrainian Parliament wants to send the ousted president to the International Criminal Court. Easier said than done, argues Mark Kersten.

James P. Rudolph on the role the ICC can play in the CAR conflict.

The International Criminal Court should give Kenya’s new president a chance.

From a united Europe to American exceptionalism.

General Butt Naked claims to have traded guns for God. But many Liberians are skeptical.

Today, Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Why this is significant for women, from our Peace V. Justice series.

Alana Tiemessen looks at the contradiction of replacing acts of war with acts of law.

Louise Arbour in conversation with Stephen Toope.

Stephen Brown considers the ICC’s case in Kenya, four years on.

Mark Kersten isn’t sure the ICC registered with Gadhafi.

The Court has opened 7 investigations – all in Africa. An interactive map detailing each.

An interactive timeline on Canada’s involvement with the court.

Roland and André have raised some important points about the limitations of the principle of R2P, and how these limitations manifest in the case of Libya. While I’m not necessarily trying to position myself as an ‘advocate’ of R2P per se, I think there are two issues worth raising in defense of the principle (and […]

I continue to believe that military intervention was warranted in the face of Muammar Qaddafi’s explicit threats against the population of Benghazi. But it’s also true that humanitarian intervention creates its own problems, including those which André identified in his latest post on the difficulties of implementing the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in practice. Let […]