Almost a year ago, on 4 March 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudan’s president Hassan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Now the judges are deciding whether he should be charged with genocide as well. This process has brought al-Bashir’s ICC case back into the media limelight, but it will have few political consequences. It was the issuing of a warrant in the first place against a sitting head of state that was the consequential event in terms of political developments in the Sudan. Now, one year later, what have been the results of this action?
Rolandsen, Øystein H. (2010) Sudan and the ICC: One Year After, Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics (discussion forum). 12 March.
