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The wreckage of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam embassy in 1998.

The Significance of the Supreme Court’s Opati Decision for States and Companies Sued for Terrorism in U.S. Courts

On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Opati v. Republic of Sudan opening the door to victims of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam to pursue…
Arrest poster of Felicien Kabuga. Reads, "Felicien Kabuga Arrested: 16/05/2020"

And Then There Were Seven: Rwandan Félicien Kabuga Arrested in France

The case illustrates the long arm of justice, via international tribunals created in the 1990s after the genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
A wide view of the Security Council as Ghassan Salamé (on screen), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefs the Council meeting on the situation in Libya. 30 January 2020

National Security at the United Nations This Past Week

Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Delegates attend a regional conference on countering violent extremism on June 25, 2015 in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

Why Violent Extremism Still Spreads

Since 2001, the international community has spent enormous intellectual and political capital debating and negotiating the definition of violent extremism to design effective strategies…

Painful Lessons of Stripping Citizenship Can Be Found Across the Globe

The Trump administration’s quest to end “birthright” citizenship is not only unconstitutional and immoral, it defies our history and the lessons that mass citizenship-strippers…

Kenya’s Elections Matter for the U.S.

A police officer watches over a polling station at Olympic Primary School in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, on August 8, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.  Today, Kenyans are…
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Guest Post: US Dollars and Kenya’s ‘Disappeared’

Just over a year ago, in May , 2015, Kenyan Border Patrol police arrested Hussein Ali Abdullahi from his shop in Wajir, northeastern Kenya, and took him to Wajir military camp.…
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International Justice Day Round-Up II: Bemba, the Crime of Aggression, and More Justice for Chile

This is Part II of an International Justice Day Top-10 Round Up.  Part I—which discussed the recent judgment against Hissène Habré in the Extraordinary African Chambers, the…
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Readers’ Guide on Recent Developments in International Criminal Law

It has been a busy few weeks in international criminal law, with a range of important judgments out of the International Criminal Court, the International Tribunal for the former…
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United States Intervention at the Meeting of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties

The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is meeting this week in The Hague — its 14th session. On the agenda (and here) are a number of issues,…
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The ICC in Kenya: Institutional Promises and Limitations

There is no question that the International Criminal Court prosecutions of Kenyan officials for crimes committed during the post-election violence of 2007-2008 have been extraordinarily…
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Obama’s Trip to Kenya: Putting Accountability and Reconciliation on the Agenda

President Obama will be visiting Kenya this weekend for the first time since he became President, and high on his agenda will be addressing regional and global security. Kenya…
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