Radio promotes Dialogue and Accountability between people in regions where the ICC is investigating the serious crimes against Humanity. Could this be applicable to Kenya?

Launched in 2008, the Interactive Radio for Justice (IRFJ) http://www.irfj.org/ works to encourage dialogue between people in regions where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating the serious crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes) and the national and international authorities responsible for rendering justice to them. Wanda Hall, IRfJ’s director, is committed to helping the goal of international justice become a reality for the people whom it is intended to benefit.

The radio project started in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the ICC began an investigation in 2004. Later the IRfJ launched in the Central African Republic and today covers the Kivus region of DRC as well.
Interactive Radio for Justice travels into communities, records their questions and finds the most appropriate authorities to answer them. Then the questions and answers are collated in a program and played back to the community who gather around a radio set wherever available to listen. “This makes it seem like they are talking to each other,” explained Hall. Read more here

Moving on to Kenya, the prosecutor at the ICC has named six high-profile Kenyans, whom he accuses of being behind the violence that followed the disputed 2007 elections. However, would such an interactive radio programme make the lofty goals of the International Criminal Court (ICC) understandable and relevant to the Kenyan people? And although most Kenyans, as recent polls have revealed, feel that these ICC prosecutions are vital in order to undermine the deeply rooted culture of impunity, are they nonetheless willing to embrace this new platform and discourse through its medium? Moreover, can new media, through the use of mobile telephone’s short messaging system (SMS) also be incorporated into such a program?