Peace vs. Justice in Uganda

Does international criminal justice promote the settlement of on-going conflicts or does it, in contrast, stand in the way of peace agreements? This question has become one of the most pressing in the fields of international criminal law and transitional justice. The debate is perhaps best illustrated inUganda where in mid-2006, after a twenty-year civil war, theLords Resistance Army ("LRA"), a rebel group that plagued northern Uganda with twenty years of violence...