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  • No ICC hearings in Kenya

    Posted: June 29, 2011, 10:50 pm by kenopp
    The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber Judge Ekaterina Trendafilova on Wednesday decided that the trial of suspects of the 2007-08 election violence in Kenya will not be held in the country. Great move. I am of the view that holding the hearings in Kenya would have created an unnecessary distraction from the important task of implementing Kenya’s [...]

  • Is Peer Review in Decline?

    Posted: June 29, 2011, 8:47 am by kenopp
    One more reason for academics to keep blogging…. Glenn Ellison in this paper notes the general decline in the need for academics from top institutions to publish in top journals because they can get citations [hopefully confirming that they were right] by other means – through sites like SSRN [and perhaps even by sharing their [...]

  • Inequality, Terrorism and Governance in Nigeria

    Posted: June 29, 2011, 4:35 am by kenopp
    On June 17th Nigeria experienced its first ever suicide bomb attack. Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group that seeks the imposition of Sharia Law in all of northern Nigeria, claimed responsibility for the attack. Although the group’s principal aim – at least according to its press releases – is the imposition of Sharia Law, its [...]
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