The International Criminal Court and the Pursuit of Justice

耶鲁大学的玛克辛·卡马里·克拉克博士将对国际司法和人权进行研究，因为这些概念已经被国际刑事法院和非洲联盟委员会解释。过去两年见证了国际刑事法院对非洲国家的集中关注，包括对许多非洲领导人发出逮捕令。拟议的研究——受到当前关于人权全球化、正义人类学和情感谱系的理论辩论的影响——探讨了关于正义的争论，记录了国际刑事法院《罗马规约》的制定和法治运动的相应兴起。该项目将在两个关键地点进行：(1)正在进行调查和裁决的海牙国际刑事法院；(2)位于埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的非盟委员会，在那里，政治、经济和文化影响下的决策正在朝着建立一个具有管辖权的非洲法院的方向进行，以处理个人犯下的国际罪行。数据将通过访谈、参与观察和档案研究等多种社会科学方法在每个地点收集，并进行分析，以检验三个主要假设：(1)人权全球化和非盟领导人的合作；(2)影响正义意义斗争性质和形式的因素；(3)影响非盟与国际刑事法院合作的影响结构。随着国际司法机制的不断发展，这项研究具有特别的紧迫性，因为它涉及在追求和平过程中适当形式的法律参与。该项目将促进法律和社会科学领域，特别是人类学或跨学科法律研究领域对国际法和司法的科学理解。这项研究也将有助于培养研究生。本研究的实证结果对政策制定者具有重要意义，有助于深入了解国际司法机制的激励因素、经验和关注点。这项研究由文化人类学项目和法律与社会科学项目共同资助。

Dr. Maxine Kamari Clarke of Yale University will conduct research on international justice and human rights as these concepts have been interpreted by the International Criminal Court and the African Union Commission. The past two years have witnessed the ICC's intensive focus on African states, including arrest warrants for numerous African leaders. The proposed research -- shaped by current theoretical debates on the globalization of human rights, the anthropology of justice, and genealogies of affect -- explores contestations over justice, documenting the making of the Rome Statute for the ICC and the corresponding rise of the rule of law movement. The project will take place at two critical sites: (1) the ICC at The Hague, in which investigations and adjudication are ongoing; (2) the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where political, economic and culturally shaped decision-making is underway toward the development of an African court with the jurisdiction to handle international crimes committed by individuals. Data will be collected at each site through a variety of social science methods, including interviews, participant observation, and archival research, and analyzed to test three major hypotheses concerning (1) the globalization of human rights and the cooperation of AU leaders; (2) the factors affecting the nature and form of struggles over the meanings of justice; (3) the structures of affect that shape AU cooperation with the ICC.As international justice mechanisms continue to evolve, there is a special urgency to this research as it relates to appropriate forms of legal involvement in the pursuit of peace. This project will advance scientific understandings of international law and justice in the field of Law and Social Sciences, especially in anthropology or interdisciplinary studies of law. The research will also contribute to the training of a graduate student. The empirical findings of this study will be of great importance to policymakers, providing insights into the motivating factors, experiences, and concerns of international justice mechanisms. This research was co-funded by the Cultural Anthropology program and the Law and Social Sciences program.