ISS SEMINAR: WHO GUARDS THE GUARDS? The ICC and Serious Crimes Committed by Peacekeepers in Africa Pretoria, 11 May 2006

Date: 2006-05-11 to Invalid date

ISS SEMINAR: WHO GUARDS THE GUARDS?
The ICC and Serious Crimes Committed by Peacekeepers in Africa
Pretoria, 11 May 2006

TRAINING FOR PEACE PROGRAMME

 

Increasingly United Nations peacekeepers have been found to abuse and exploit host nation civilian populations. Indeed, the incidence of abuse by peacekeepers has also recently come to the fore in the African Mission in Sudan-Darfur. Increasingly the international community has come to view the abuse of civilians by peacekeepers as a serious problem that also does immense damage to the integrity of peacekeeping missions, the mandating authorities and contributing countries.

 

In a monograph titled, “Who Guards the Guards, the International Criminal Court and Serious Crimes committed by peacekeepers in Africa”, the authors sought further examined the difficulties surrounding successful prosecution of alleged offenders and the role that international criminal law and the International Criminal Court (ICC) may play in this area.

 

The seminar therefore provides a platform for the launch of the monograph and for Max du Plessis and Steve Pete to present the relevant arguments and conclusions regarding the role of international normative institutions, in light of the principle of complementarity and further responses by peacekeepers that fall outside the limits of national and international law.

 

Chair: Howard Varney, Advocate, Johannesburg Bar.
Speakers: Max du Plessis: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Advocate, High Court; Associate Member, Natal Bar.Stephen Peté: Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Attorney, High Court of South Africa.

 

Date: Thursday, 11 May 2006
Time: 09h30 – 11h30 (preceded by tea)
Venue: ISS Conference Room, ISS Office, Pretoria
RSVP: Ms Vuyo Mxego
Email: [email protected]

 

Tel: (012) 346-9500, fax: (012) 460-0997 / 8

 

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The seminar is organised under the auspices of the Training for Peace (TfP) Programme in Africa

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