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Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta. By Jeremy I. Levitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 301 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Philipp Kastner
Philipp Kastner*
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 50 , 2013 , pp. 633 - 640
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1 Levitt, Jeremy I, Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Ibid at 16.

3 Ibid at 9.

4 See, for example, Bryce, Trevor, “The ‘Eternal Treaty’ from the Hittite Perspective” (2006) 6 Google Scholar British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 1, online: British Museum <http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/6a%20The%20Eternal%20 Treaty.pdf>.

5 Peace Agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, 7 July 1999, online: United Nations Peacemaker <http://peacemaker.un.org/sierraleone-lomeagreement99>.

6 Levitt, supra note 1 at 7.

7 Ibid at 31.

8 Ibid at 33–34.

9 Fuller, Lon L., The Morality of Law, rev ed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969) at 162.Google Scholar

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11 Fuller, supra note 9 at 193; Fuller, , “Human Interaction and the Law” (1969) 14 American Journal ofJurisprudence 1 at 27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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14 Dayton Peace Agreement (1995), Annex 4, Article II.8 and Annex 7, Article VI.

15 Lanni, Adriaan, “Transitional Justice in Ancient Athens: A Case Study” (2010) 32:2 U Pa J Int’l L 551,Google Scholar in particular at 566–67.

16 For this argument see Fisch, Jörg, Krieg und Frieden im Friedensvertrag: Eine universalgeschichtliche Studie über die Grundlagen und Formelemente des Friedensschlusses (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1979) at 59–60.Google Scholar

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18 Accord deLinas-Marcoussis (24 janvier 2003), Annexe (Programme du gouvernement de réconciliation), VII 5. and VI 3.

19 Levitt, supra note 1 at 47.

20 Ibid at 3, n 4 and 5.

21 Ibid at 181, 188.

22 This language draws on Teitel, Ruti, Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) at 214.Google Scholar Teitel argues that it would be erroneous to give too much emphasis to the stabilizing function of law in the context of societies in transition and that “law’s function in these periods is largely symbolic” (at 219, 221).

23 For this argument, see also Bell, Christine, Human Rights and Peace Agreements (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) at 314 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Slaughter, Anne-Marie, “Pushing the Limits of the Liberal Peace: Ethnic Conflict and the ’Ideal Polity’” in Wippman, David, ed, International Law and Ethnic Conflict (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998) 128.Google Scholar