We have a terrific new contributor over at our Transitional Justice Forum blog. She’s called Joanna Quinn, and she’s written some really interesting things about transitional justice issues in Uganda and a bunch of other countries. (See here and here, for starters.)
At the second of those links, she and I have started having a pretty interesting discussion. Check it out. Indeed, we’d really love it if some of you could take the plunge over there and contribute a few comments or questions to our Comments boards.
Uganda is really, really interesting right now. Last week, the government claimed that the ICC had issued five or so indictments against members of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), which has maintained a really vicious civil war in the north of the country for several years… But no word from the ICC directly on these indictments. Is the government jumping the gun? How will the ICC’s intervention (whatever it turns out to be… so far, they announced only a “judicial investigation” into the situation there) affect the politics of war and peace?
I want to say thanks to those of you who sent in suggestions re the new blog… I haven’t had time to implement them all yet, but fully intend to. Rome not built in a day, etc.
One thing we need more of over there is contributors and commenters who want to argue a fairly robust pro-prosecutions line… So far their voice is very under-represented at TJF, and we definitely want to have them there. Do any of you folks from here want to do that, or do you have friends you might tell about TJF who might want to do it? (Or, tell me about them and I’ll invite them along.)