For those of you interested in the issue we discussed in class today regarding the International Criminal Court. This is about Sudan, but it is of interest nonetheless.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/world/africa/sudan-bashir-international-criminal-court.html
"In cases where a suspected serious international criminal is a citizen of a country that is not a signatory of the Rome Statute, the court must obtain a referral from the U.N. Security Council. But if it were to seek to indict Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, for instance, it would be dependent on the politics of the permanent, veto-wielding powers, such as Mr. Assad’s Russian and Chinese allies."
http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2015/12/09/mission-impossible
For those of you interested in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission idea we discussed in class as applied in South Africa at the end of apartheid (legally imposed, political, economic and cultural segregation of whites and blacks in South Africa), the below looks back on the experience of the T&RC:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adst/south-africas-truth-and-r_b_8581506.html
And most relevant to what we are studying, given the unit we just concluded (Absolutism and Constitutionalism) and the unit we've just begun (Scientific Revolution and Englightenmwnt), the below article discusses how countries succeed or fail at the transition from dictatorship to democracy:
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21679178-how-make-most-difficult-political-transition-alland-how-not-slip-back
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