The dangerous idea of
non-violence in the history
of Côte d’Ivoire
THE THINKER Volume 69 / 2016 INTERNATIONAL In view of its juridical absurdity we should be taking the ICC very seriously. Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé at the ICC On 3 June 2013 a majority of judges at a pre-trial chamber in the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided that there was not enough evidence to take the former President of Côte d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, to trial for crimes against humanity.1 This decision was taken despite the fact that a