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Wildöer, Justine Anna Elisabeth (2016)

The ICC and Bosco Ntaganda: Trials as a Tool for Peace?

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This thesis poses the question "do international tribunals effectively contribute to conflict resolution?", which it answers on the basis of the tribunal of Bosco Ntaganda. Building on available academic literature, the first chapter forms a theoretical framework that defines effective conflict resolution. It furthermore explains how justice should ideally be achieved, after which it offers the reader a schematized checklist. Chapter two forms a detailed case study on the Congolese conflict and how Ntaganda's trial is situated in it. Subsequently, Chapter three analyzes the trial along the checklist. This ultimately leads to conclude that, theoretically, the International Criminal Court could become fundamental to conflict resolution, but that it somehow fails to flawlessly translate this into practice. As such, this thesis proves useful to practitioners- and philosophers of international law, as it identifies the bottlenecks of the ICC.

International Criminal Court

Measuring peacebuilding

Bosco Ntaganda

Checlist for tribunals

Conflict resolution

International relations

Philosophy of law

Author

Wildöer, Justine Anna Elisabeth

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Sub-Saharan Africa

Supervisors

Mous, M.P.G.M.

ECTS Credits

17

Language

en