@inbook{2f6ccfa21c0f4456a045876af42e12bc,
title = "Law, dispute resolution and justice",
abstract = "International criminal court trials are a recent addition to the landscape of law, dispute resolution and “justice” in Africa. Legal anthropology has a rich history within the anthropology of Africa: many of the earliest ethnographers of law worked in Africa and concentrated on the study of legal disputes. The study of legal disputes has survived the many changes that have occurred in the discipline ‐ and the world ‐ since these early texts were published. This chapter considers some of the new contexts in which African legal realms are currently being analyzed, to enquire into the extent to which they build upon, and contest, earlier approaches. Three scholars stand out as pioneers of legal anthropology in Africa: Isaac Schapera, Paul Bohannan, and Max Gluckman. Dominic Ongwen's trial expresses that questions of law, dispute resolution, and justice are fundamentally questions about morality, agency, authority, and institutions.",
keywords = "dispute resolution, Dominic Ongwen, International criminal court, Isaac Schapera, justice, law, legal anthropology, Max Gluckman, Paul Bohannan",
author = "Jessica Johnson",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1002/9781119251521.ch4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781119251484",
series = "Blackwell Companions to Anthropology",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
pages = "81--96",
editor = "Grinker, {Roy Richard} and Stephen Lubkemann and Christopher Steiner and Euclides Gon{\c c}alves",
booktitle = "A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa",
address = "United Kingdom",
}
