The self as the prosecutor, criminal, and victim: A case study of Ugandan governmentality with the ICC

Abstract

The objective of this project is to assess the role of international law at responding to injustice in Northern Uganda since state referral. This project explores this response with the use of governmentality as a mode of analysis to a case study of the International Criminal Court. It will involve the theoretical and technical developments of the concept of governmentality coined by Michel Foucault in his lectures of 1978 and 1979 at the Collège de France. The application of this framework will take into account the self as the Prosecutor, victim, and criminal from a governmentality perspective. The main arguments outlined here are that the contribution of this mode of analysis will serve to benefit the very subjects that are being analysed. Governmentality will take into account these nuances that are often overlooked in other fields of political science and particularly international relations. The use of governmentality as a perspective to view a situation that is under investigation by the International Criminal Court will illuminate the court case therefore, enhancing the search and judgement of how justice is to be served in the current volatile setting.