Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa , ed. Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark

Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa provides an insightful and informative overview of the many issues afflicting the International Criminal Court (ICC) as it embarks on its first cases. The Court is the first permanent treaty-based international body established to prosecute those responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and, eventually, the crime of aggression. One hundred and six states, of which 30 are African, are party to the 1998 Rome Statute, the ICC's constitutive document. To date, the ICC is seized of four situations, all from Africa, namely those in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Darfur, Uganda and the Central African Republic.

Courting Conflict? is a collection of papers stemming from a series of meetings held in London in March 2007 that brings to...