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Book Notes
towards the

Allen, Tim, tional Criminal Army. London &

2006. Court New

Trial Justice: The Interna and the Lord's Resistance York: Zed. xvi + 230 pp.

from

delicate

'implacable this shift description Palestinian

ISBN 1842777378.
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

(p. xix). Bucaille explains logic a historical a and analysis through of current contradictions within society and Israeli strategies. She elab the relative success of the first intifada, of the Palestinian (PA). Rather than

peace of war'

processes

Joseph Kony's as a prime regarded conducting civil wars. understood bated with Criminal the LRA test cases. In

is

orates which

on

example of insurgency groups in Africa's 'new' 'meaningless' violence those wars, rebellions have been that should be com

led to the establishment

as societal diseases

condi Authority improving of the PA brought social tions, the functioning conflicts and contradictions within Palestinian society Israel's to the surface. This, tactic of containing in combination and with the crippling the circumstances

In 2005, five warrants were LRA. The

International new, apolitical cures. The is one of these cures, and Court (ICC) is one of the conflict inNorthern Uganda a following long investigation, issued for the top leaders of the inUganda has, however, at both the local and interna

Palestinian

that allowed frontation. reader what

role of the ICC

territories, created for a return to the strategy of con to show The author the attempts itmeans to grow up Palestinian, by

proved controversial, tional levels. Tim Aliens a convincing in Northern manner,

Uganda, for the ICC s involve Sudan, and the background ment. The of the book lies in the manner strength inwhich Allen utilizes his comprehensive research into the lives of former LRA combatants, the con sequences of the conflict for the civilian population, and these groups' attitudes and the ongoing peace towards the LRA,

in Trial Justice presents, the history of the conflict with its spillover effects in

three young, introducing Sami, Najy and Bassam, militant men. Throughout the book, her macro are level observations interspersed with clues about the lives of these three young men. Whereas Bucaille's opments

insightful analysis of the political devel and societal divisions underscore the

the

micro-

to the peace process. Like the other spoilers in the African Arguments series, Trial Justice is aimed at a broader audience and is first and fore an apt contribution most to an and important complex debate. books Oystein Rolandsen

between reconciliation and prosecution opposition and demonstrates how the ICC, with itswarrants on the chief negotiators from the LRA side, may be seen as

ICC in process. Important this regard isAllen's ability to enter the local dis course and at the grass analyse debates taking place roots out level. Convincingly, he fleshes the

to connect started off on a project that attempted and macro-perspectives and a journalistic a more with academic approach style. Though both initiatives are valuable, in this book it has led to an uncomfortable justice balance that does not do to either side. For those who expect to gain of Israeli-Palestinian

of the conflict well, her ethnographic complexities sections are less She seems to have convincing.

insight into the complexities this book is worth relations, reading. For those who hope to truly gain insight into the thoughts and motivations of the individuals involved, many questions remain unanswered.

CindyHorst

2006. Laetitia, Bucaille, Growing Up Pales tinian: Israeli and the Intifada Generation. Occupation Princeton Princeton, NJ & Oxford: University Press, xix + 172 pp. ISBN 0691126119. tries to offer explanations This book for the al Palestinian Intifada in the occupied territo Aqsa ries between 2000 and 2004, shifting the balance

2006. Sacred Causes: Michael, Burleigh, to Religion and Politics from theEuropean Dictators AI Qaeda. xviii +557 London: pp. ISBN Harper,

0007195745.

This

is a sweeping history of the relation book ship between religion and politics from the 1930s to the present day, and it follows Earthly Powers, covers the earlier book which Burleigh's preceding

The book has period from the French Revolution. three main first, and most extensive, parts. The

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