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Weaving the threads of international criminal justice: The double dialogicity of law and politics in the ICC al-Mahdi case
Jonas BensBaudouin DupretSigurd D'hondtsubject
Cultural Studiesuutisointituhotdialogicitydialogical networkContext (language use)International Criminal Courtdialoginen analyysiPoliticsTimbuktuPolitical sciencedialogisuusRelevance (law)0601 history and archaeologykansainvälinen rikosoikeus060201 languages & linguistics060101 anthropology[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyMahdiCommunicationDialogical selfInternational communityIslam06 humanities and the artscultural heritage16. Peace & justicediskurssintutkimuskulttuuriperintö301Law0602 languages and literatureoikeudenkäyntiCriminal justicedescription
International audience; In this paper, we examine the international criminal trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, a Malian Islamist who appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, charged with the destruction of Islamic shrines during the 2012 jihadist occupation of Timbuktu. Our objective is to analyze the so-called 'al-Mahdi case' as a dialogical network (the destructions occurred in the context of an asynchronous translocal press-mediated exchange between jihadists and the international community) and as an event unfolding at a dialogical site (when the commander responsible for the destructions was referred to the ICC four years later). These two dialogical orders exist largely independent of each other, but are at crucial points also partly entangled. We conclude by pointing out the relevance of this 'doubly-dialogical' approach to the broader field of sociolegal studies of international criminal justice.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-01 |