Social Science Research Council

John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond’s Darfur and the Crime of Genocide constitutes an important, if not always entirely compelling, contribution to the study of genocide. The book inquires into (1) the dynamics of genocide in Darfur; and (2) the promise—and limits—of criminology for making sense of it. It is, in many respects, a path-breaking work. [...]

This contribution to the ongoing debate over the promise—and—limits of holding Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir individually accountable before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for international crimes perpetrated in Darfur considers two further modes of liability in international law that Luis Moreno Ocampo’s Office of the Prosecutor could invoke, namely the doctrines of command and [...]

Part 2 of a 2-part contribution.
In this, my second contribution to the debate over what would happen if Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), were to indict Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir on charges relating to Darfur, I consider the implications of an indictment revolving around a theory of [...]

Part 1 of a 2-part contribution.
If Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), were to indict Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir on charges relating to Darfur, he would be faced with a slew of challenges. Aside from the obvious political challenges, he and the Office of the Prosecutor would have [...]