{"title":"The Ongwen Case at the International Criminal Court as a Test of the Court’s Outreach Programming in Northern Uganda","authors":"Dennis Jjuuko, Francis Opio","doi":"10.1093/jicj/mqae031","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The International Criminal Court’s outreach office remains a central pillar to the legitimacy and relevance of the Court’s activities aimed towards victims’ constituencies. However, the Court’s outreach programmes in the Ongwen case are constrained by a communication strategy used in the context of a fledgling communication infrastructure in northern Uganda. We rely on primary qualitative interviews with victims of Ongwen’s atrocities at Lukodi, Pajule, and Odek to reflect on the need for contextualized outreach activities that are responsive to the needs of victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency.","PeriodicalId":46732,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Criminal Justice","volume":"171 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of International Criminal Justice","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqae031","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The International Criminal Court’s outreach office remains a central pillar to the legitimacy and relevance of the Court’s activities aimed towards victims’ constituencies. However, the Court’s outreach programmes in the Ongwen case are constrained by a communication strategy used in the context of a fledgling communication infrastructure in northern Uganda. We rely on primary qualitative interviews with victims of Ongwen’s atrocities at Lukodi, Pajule, and Odek to reflect on the need for contextualized outreach activities that are responsive to the needs of victims of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency.
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The Journal of International Criminal Justice aims to promote a profound collective reflection on the new problems facing international law. Established by a group of distinguished criminal lawyers and international lawyers, the Journal addresses the major problems of justice from the angle of law, jurisprudence, criminology, penal philosophy, and the history of international judicial institutions. It is intended for graduate and post-graduate students, practitioners, academics, government officials, as well as the hundreds of people working for international criminal courts.