Demands to relocate the Specialist Chambers are unlikely to be met
Court should focus on other ways of increasing bottom-up justice.
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The KSC has manifestly failed in creating any semblance of popular support from the subjects under its purview.
The court is seen as a foreign imposition, as the impetus for its establishment was international pressure, rather than local demand.
Nobody with domestic political credibility is willing to advocate for the KSC on the ground.
Sindi Kuçi
Sindi Kuçi holds a BA in international relations from Webster Vienna Private University and is an incoming postgraduate student at the University of Oxford, where she will read an MPhil in development studies. Her research interests include localized transitional justice, civil conflict and development in South-Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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