Brief 3 : implementing the responsibility to protect through agenda one of Kenya's national accord
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2013-12
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University for Peace Africa Programme, Addis Ababa, ET
Abstract
UN member states adopted the World Summit outcome document
and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005, reaffirming political
commitment from both states and the international community to protect
civilians from crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing and
war crimes. Following Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence, Agenda
One of the National Accord outlined policy actions to implement R2P
through measures to stop violence, disband ethnic militia and prosecute
persons responsible for crimes against humanity committed during the
crisis. Progress has been made; the violence was halted, a majority of the
displaced returned to their homes, and most illegal groups disappeared.
However, international intervention is still needed because a critical part
of Agenda One has not been implemented; few people have been held
accountable for the violence. Legislative attempts to establish a local
tribunal to try high-level perpetrators have failed, and over five thousand
cases against low-level offenders remain pending before magistrates’
courts. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has
observed that ‘the court should be seen as a tool in the R2P toolbox’ through its role in fighting impunity for atrocity crimes...
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KENYA, HUMAN SECURITY, RIGHT TO SECURITY OF PERSON, RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT, ETHNIC CONFLICTS, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES, REINTEGRATION, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, ELECTION VERIFICATION, ACCOUNTABILITY
Citation
Kamungi, P. (2013). Brief 3 : implementing the responsibility to protect through agenda one of Kenya's national accord. UPEACE Africa Policy Series, 1(1): 29-38.