ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a deeper understanding of Juba's judicialised peacemaking. It analyses how judicialisation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) affected the Juba Peace Talks and explains why the Talks failed. The chapter analyses the ways in which ICC involvement affected the peace process. It argues that moderates were defeated by extremists within each conflict party. The chapter identifies the interactive and constitutive effects of ICC involvement on the peace process in Juba. Scholarly claims about the nature and effects of the interaction between the Ugandan peace and justice processes tend to be general or abstract, and mainly focused on the Indictment phase. The Juba Peace Talks confirmed the conflict parties' narratives and even entrenched the conflict. According to Schomerus explanations that point to the ICC arrest warrants are 'easy and lazy' because they overlook how the Talks were experienced by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
