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Research Project ‘International Criminal Procedure: In Search of General Rules and Principles’ Funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Supervised by Professor Dr. G.K. Sluiter Field Research, ICTR, Arusha, Tanzania, May-June 2008 Interviewers: Karel De Meester and Sergey {...}
Books
PUBLICATIONS Hybrid Courts: Lesson from Rwanda and Sierra Leone (Freedom World Publishers, Stocholm 2021) How Gangster Regimes Undermined Justice in Uganda (Freedom World Publishers, Stockholm, 2018) Uganda: Confronting Impunity Through Accountability (Freedom World Publishers, Stockholm, 2015) The Judging of War {...}
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International criminal law is a product of the convergence of two different legal disciplines: the criminal aspects of international law and the international aspects of national criminal law. The two disciplines, while complementary, are also co-extensive and separate. Further, the {...}
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President Yoweri Museveni’s New Year address was a study in presidential hubris. Arrogant, insulting and condescending, and consistent with his past behaviour, President Museveni blamed ‘internal enemies of Uganda’ for his many failures without taking personal responsibility for failing Ugandans. {...}
Articles
The 13th Commemoration of Rwanda Genocide at African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia 7th April 2007 The Rwanda genocide ended the twentieth century on a note of unimaginable evil. It is only reasonable that understanding and fighting genocide ideology is given {...}
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Introduction The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), a post-genocide court, was established on 8 November 1994 after the genocide was over.[1] The chief prosecutor of the ICTY, based at The Hague, assumed that post for Rwanda as well. The {...}
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Introduction Hon. Judge Pillay is a distinguished judge, with an impeccable record of service at the ICTR and ICC. She is a committed human rights lawyer. Judge Pillay is in a unique position, with the necessary institutional support, to initiate {...}
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An Overview of the work of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Introduction This short paper provides an overview of the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). It identifies some of the law, Rules of Procedure and Evidence {...}
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1 Introduction The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2098(2013) creating and approving the deployment of an Intervention Combat Brigade (ICB) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The deployment of ICB is intended to reinforce the {...}
About
Dr Alex Obote Odora is Executive Director at Alternative Policy Forum, an independent and non-profit Think-Tank. Its mandate includes researching and developing policies for a Rule of Law – based post-Museveni Uganda. It focuses on developing policies on Electoral Reform, {...}