Human Rights NGOs In International Criminal Justice

Human Rights NGOs In International Criminal Justice Presented by: Dr. Lohne Date: 15 October 2020 Table of Contents - 1: Locating International Criminal Justice - 2: Spaces - 3: Networks - 4: Advocates - 5: Penal Imaginations - 6: Victimological Imaginations - 7: The Pursuit of Global Moral Order - 8: Towards a Sociology of Punishment for International Criminal Justice Talk's Outline 1. Paradoxes as point of departure: the case of Uganda 2. Research questions & methodology 3. Spaces and places of ICJ 4. Transnational NGO networks as ICJ 5. Moral advocates, entrepreneurs and power networks 6. Penal imaginations of global justice-making 7. From criminal to victims' justice 8. The making of global moral order 9. The situatedness of the global Paradoxes As Point Of Departure: The Case Of Uganda - ICCs first 'situation' - Epitomized dilemmas of • Peace vs. justice - • ICCs relation to state power • Agency vs. structure (individual accountability in war torn societies) • The local vs. the global In addition to these difficult aspects, it revealed the dominant role of human rights NGOs in this discourse. Problem Tique: NGOs in International Criminal Justice - Human rights NGOs at the core of the 'fight against impunity' (Neyer; Engels) - The ICC considered in literature and policy as a "global civil society achievement" (Glasius). - Involved at almost every step in the (international) criminal justice chain - from evidence to trial. - How can we understand the close relationship between global criminal justice-making with global civil society? Research Questions: - What is the role of NGOs in international criminal justice (ICJ)? - What characterizes punishment 'gone global'? - How is international criminal justice constituted by and of 'the global'? Analytical Framework - A sociology of punishment for international criminal justice drawing on • Criminology (supranational criminology) • International law (critical IL & international criminal justice) • International relations (Transnational advocacy networks, transnational field theory) Ethnographic Approach - Multi-sited and transnational (Burawoy) • - Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Rwanda, Uganda, UK Tracing networks (Marcus) • 'Global' NGO coalition - regional network - national network - local actors - Dominant focus on The Hague, with a view from Uganda. - Objectivizing the international object (Madsen) - Critical impulse of ethnography to engage with the question of boundaries - of structures and social conditions (Enslava; Yves & Dezalay) Spaces & Places Of ICJ - Where does global justice-making through international criminal law take place? - Where does it happen? • The Hague as a global city of justice • Global justice-making and social media • Global connections: the Assembly of States Parties meeting Networks For Global Justice-Making - The crafting of the ICC as a 'global civil society achievement' - The Coalition for the ICC - Mediators of global justice - The legitimacy of global civil society Moral Entrepreneurs - Global moral entrepreneurs: • - Epistemic communities and transnational power networks • - 'Lobbying for the good' Internships, transnational mobility as capital Career trajectories: global justice-making as industry • Revolving doors • Identity switching Penal Imaginations Of Global Justice-Making - The turn to criminal law - The punitive and non-punitive forces of human rights - The cosmopolitan penal imaginary • See also Lohne, 2020, 'Penal welfarism "gone global"?: Comparing international criminal justice to The Culture of Control' Punishment & Society From Criminal To Victims' Justice - - Justice for victims • Victim participation: promises and pitfalls • Victim reparations: promises and pitfalls Victims for justice • Scales of victimhood - conflict appropriation • Global identities of suffering - SGBV victims • Victims as source of moral authority - for whom? • If only 'to see them smiling-emotive force  See also Houge & Lohne, 2017, 'End Impunity! Reducing conflictrelated sexual violence to a problem of law' Law & Society Review, 51.4. Sovereignty & Solidarity: The Making Of Global Moral Order - Victims for justice - Cosmopolitanism as global solidarity - - • Reframing sovereignty • Representing humanity The ICC as a multiscale project • Positive complementarity • Parliamentarians for global action Whose cosmopolitanism, whose humanity? Towards A Global Sociology Of Punishment - Current pushback against international criminal justice (and human rights, and multilateralism) - The situatedness of the global - The need for a global sociology of punishment Revisiting Research Objectives - What is the role of NGOs in international criminal justice (ICJ)? • - What characterizes punishment 'gone global'? • - They contribute moral authority to ICJ It is driven by humanitarian reason How is international criminal justice constituted by and of 'the global'? • It consolidates unequal power structures