Social Science Research Council

Pacification
“NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE”
The second main argument used in support of the International Criminal Court is that there can be “no peace without justice.” This argument is summed up perfectly in this 6 March 2009 editorial in Le Monde:
“Justice and the pursuit of peace go hand in hand. There is no contradiction between them, [...]

Introduction
Officially, the thirteen NGOs expelled from Sudan after an international arrest warrant was issued against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir were being punished for their “violations to the laws of the humanitarian work” in cooperating with the “so-called International Criminal Court.”(1) By all appearance, this explanation reflects only some of the regime’s motivations. Yet, the [...]

With 13,000 humanitarian workers and a hundred relief agencies, Darfur hosts the largest humanitarian operation in the world. The aid apparatus started to be deployed in Western Sudan in mid-2004 in a context of acutely high mortality among civilian displaced living in camps and those remaining in rural areas. Since that time – thanks to [...]