I’m really torn over a blogosphere initiative that has started to take off over the past 24 hours. It’s called Silence is the Enemy. It was launched yesterday on a blog called The Intersection (it’s worth reading the full post), where Sheril Kirshenbaum describes her personal experiences, announces the initiative to “to help a generation […]
Lawyer of the Day Prize goes to . . .
June 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
. . . Carine Bapita, legal representative for victims at the ICC. Why? Her statements in the admissibility hearing in Katanga today shows she has the Defense strategy all mapped out (so much so, Defense lawyer David Hooper himself acknowledged it). I don’t have the transcript yet, but to paraphrase Bapita: The admissibility challenge is […]
Who should judge the Katanga case?
June 1, 2009 by 5 Comments
** I’m twittering the hearing at: http://twitter.com/bechamilton for those who can’t catch the live webcast** There is a hearing at the ICC this morning which may seem to be on an obscure legal point to the general public, but is actually of significance to the global system of justice established by the Rome Statute. The […]
Darfuri women: Nowhere to turn
May 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
A report released today by Physicians for Human Rights and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative documents “the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks on their villages in Darfur and are now refugees in neighboring Chad.” The report is based on 88 in-depth interviews with women at […]
Why is our capacity to learn so limited?
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I’ve spent the morning going over the 1999 Report of the UN Secretary General on the Fall of Srebrenica. I found it depressing when I first read it years ago, but re-reading it now in the context of writing my chapter on the passage of UN Res. 1706 (a.k.a. the “invites the consent” resolution) is […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q3 – Eric Cohen
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues? Some recent high-visibility discussions and critiques of the “save” Darfur movement focus on knowledge – Sudan […]
Reeves responds to Pronk’s “switch-out” deployment idea
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
FYI – I’ve just posted a comment Eric Reeves sent through: “Reply to Pronk’s UNMIS/UNAMID “switch-out” deployment plan” You can read it in the comments below the Pronk podcast.
Abu Garda vs. Omar Al Bashir
May 28, 2009 by 3 Comments
Below I’ve (belatedly) written up some of the notes I took while attending Abu Garda’s first appearance before the ICC last week: May 18, 2009 There are two men. They are both Sudanese. They both have leadership positions. And they are both charged with serious crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that is […]
Questions for the Advocacy Community – Part III
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In the final section of this series, advocates respond to the question: What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues? The question arises from […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q3 – Sam Bell
Q3 – What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues? Sam Bell: It seems to me that policy-making is a “single-issue”* enterprise. Candidates campaign […]