Power and Prosecution - Challenges and opportunities for international criminal justice in Sub-Saharan Africa / Pouvoir et Poursuite - Défi s et Opportunités pour la Justice Pénale Internationale en Afrique SubSaharienne

209 Pages·2012·1.221 MB·English, French

by  Kai Ambos, Ottilia A. Maunganidze, et al.

This book contains some of the papers that were presented at the fi rst mee-
ting of the newly formed African Expert Study Group on International Criminal
Law/ Groupe des Experts Africaines en Droit Pénal International held in Septem-
ber 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The group was established under the auspices
of the Multinational Development Policy Dialogue (hereinafter ‘MDPD’) and the Göttingen Studies
Rule of Law programme of the German Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (‘KAS’) in 2010
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originally founded as an expert group to monitor the implementation of the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’) in Latin America within the fra-
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Published als Volume 24 of the series „Göttingen Studies in Criminal Law and
Justice“ by Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2012
Kai Ambos,
Ottilia A. Maunganidze (Eds.)

African Expert Study Group on International
Criminal Law
Groupe des Experts Africaines en Droit Pénal
International

Power and Prosecution
Challenges and Opportunities for
International Criminal Justice in Sub-
Saharan Africa

Pouvoir et Poursuite
Défis et Opportunités pour la Justice
Pénale Internationale
en Afrique SubSaharienne

with the editorial support by
Sabine Klein and Anett Müller

Göttingen Studies in
Criminal Law and Justice
Volume 24

Universitätsverlag Göttingen
2012
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Editors of the Series
Institute of Criminal Law and Justice
Faculty of Law, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Profs. Drs. Kai Ambos, Gunnar Duttge, Jörg-Martin Jehle, Uwe Murmann

Editors of this Volume
Prof. Dr. Kai Ambos
Judge District Court Göttingen Ottilia A. Maunganidze
University of Göttingen Institute for Security Studies
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Table of contents

Introduction (english version)
Kai Ambos............................................................................................... 5
Introduction (version française)
Kai Ambos............................................................................................. 13

South Africa’s Implementation of the Rome Statute
(La Mise en œuvre du Statut de Rome en Afrique du Sud)
Du Plessis, Max..................................................................................... 23

Implementing at national level the amendments to the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court with respect to the
crime of aggression: A South African perspective
(Mise en œuvre des amendements au Statut de Rome en ce qui
concerne le crime d’agression au niveau national: Un point de vue
Sud-Africain)
Kemp, Gerhard........................................................................................ 39

Rwanda and the ICC: a need for the ratification of the Rome
Statute
(Le Rwanda et la CPI: une nécessité pour la ratification du Statut
de Rome)
Garuka, Christian Nsabimana….......................................................... 57
2
L’impact de la peine de mort dans le processus de l’adoption de la
loi de mise en œuvre du Statut de Rome en République
Démocratique du Congo
(The impact of the death penalty in the process of adopting the
law implementation of the Rome Statute in the Democratic
Republic of Congo)
Ngondji Ongombe, Lievin........................................................................ 73

Immunity and the implementation legislation in South Africa,
Kenya and Uganda
(Immunité en Mise en Œuvre de la Législation en Afrique du Sud,
au Kenya et en Ouganda)
Gevers, Christoper.................................................................................. 85

The International Criminal Court Factor on Transitional Justice in
Kenya
(La Cour Pénale Internationale Facteur de Justice de Transition au
Kenya)
Asaala, Evelyne Owiye.......................................................................... 119

Implementing the Rome Statute in Africa: Potential and problems
of the prosecution of gender crimes in Africa in accordance with
the Rome Statute
(Mise en œuvre du Statut de Rome en Afrique: le potentiel et les
problèmes de la poursuite judiciaire des crimes sexuels en Afrique,
conformément au Statut de Rome)
Meyersfeld, Bonita.................................................................................. 145
Table of contents 3

The African Union’s decisions on the indictments of Al-Bashir
and Gaddafi and their implications for the implementation of the
Rome Statute by African States
(Les decisions de l’Union Africaine sur les actes d’accusation d’Al-
Bashir et Kadhafi et leurs implications pour la mise en œuvre du
Statut de Rome par les États de l’Afrique)
Lubbe, Hendrik Johannes...................................................................... 179

List of editors and authors............................................................... 201