Peace in Sudan Should not be Destroyed with Politicized ICC Justice

By: James Okuk

Thanks for Kwathi Ajawin for his article titled “ICC vs. Sudan: Calculating the Cost” in Sudan Tribune (http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article29388) for taking the courage to join the debate about the calculations of the consequences of ICC move on the Sitting President of the Sudan. Let me add this argument to his:

1) When some people say Peace first and Justice next; it is said for a valid reason;

2) Also when others say Justice first and Peace next, it is said for a valid reason too;

3) Further, when some other people argue that that Peace should be parallel with Justice, they also do this on a valid reason;

4) However, all these validities should be prioritized with lexical order and according to the degree of the consequences. From the current fresh example of Iraq where Justice was imposed on Saddam Hussein, the Sitting President without prudent calculations of the consequences, it has been regretted even by the American invaders themselves and their Iraqis collaborators why they ignore the primacy of Peace in Iraq and rushed to put Justice ahead of Peace like wrongly putting a cart before a horse. With this political rush, it has been known across the whole world that from then Iraq has never enjoyed Peace that it used to have when Justice was not there.  

5) Therefore, if we calculate the cost of the case of the ICC vs Sudan well, we will not hesitate to learn from Iraq's predicament and avoid it to recur in the Sudan. The Current Iraq's situation is a strong example that Justice is useless without Peace. So also ICC Justice will be useless in the Sudan if it destroys the Opportunities that have been brought to Southern Sudan by the CPA and to parts of Western Sudan by DPA and to Eastern Sudan by ESPA and to Central Sudan by Cairo Declaration.

*James Okuk is a PhD student in the University of Nairobi, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.