In a special programme, Isabel Hilton and guests explore the challenges facing the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa - the first permanent world court set up to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Millions have died as a result of recent conflicts in DR Congo, Uganda and Sudan. But how are the guilty to be brought to justice, should the ICC be the way to do this, and are there fundamentally different conceptions of justice at work in Africa?
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The International Criminal Court - the world's first permanent international court set up to try genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes - is opening this year with investigations on crimes committed in Darfur in Sudan, Northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Is Africa being used as an experimental testing ground for international justice? How can international justice help African countries in conflict? Or are there national means of achieving justice in the countries where the atrocities have been carried out?
Joining Isabel Hilton to discuss justice in Africa, are Justice Richard Goldstone who is one of the world's leading international lawyers and one of the key people credited with achieving reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa; the historian and writer on African affairs Herbert Ekwe Ekwe; Thierry Cruvellier, who is the Editor of the International Justice Tribune; and the human rights lawyer from Uganda, Barney Offako.
That's all in a special edition of Night Waves at 9.30pm here on BBC Radio 3.
Presenter: Isabel Hilton
Producer: Ariane Koek
