Abstract

This lecture provides an overview of the implementation and consequences of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) first-ever reparations programme. It discusses reparations for the 2003 attack of the village of Bogoro, in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The attack was committed by paramilitary groups led by Germain Katanga, who was subsequently sentenced to ten years in prison by the ICC. In March 2017, the ICC issued an ‘Order for Reparations’ against Mr Katanga, comprising individual and collective reparations to victims of the Bogoro attack.

Speaker

Jean-Benoît Falisse is a senior lecturer in African Studies and International Development and the co-director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research examines the political economy and governance of basic social services in ‘fragile’ and conflict-affected societies. In the last three years, Jean-Benoît was the principal investigator of four evaluations commissioned by the Trust Fund of Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC), focussing on the consequences of reparations ordered by the ICC.

The REPAIR lectures

The REPAIR lectures are an interdisciplinary lecture series on contemporary reparations demands and policies around the globe. They are given by leading reparations experts and investigate how reparations claims and policies come about, how they play out from a political, economic and moral perspective, and what they may teach us about politics and economics today. The lectures are hosted by the REPAIR project, based at the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). They are co-sponsored by the UvA’s Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS).