The 6th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place in Paris from the 8th to the 10th of July 2015 under the headline ”Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt“. Olaf Zenker of project B04 together with Gerhard Anders of the University of Edinburgh organized a panel entitled „Representation, Participation and Punishment: Contesting Justice in Africa", where they presented their paper „Retributive vs. Distributive Justice: Popular Demands and Official Narratives in Sierra Leone and South Africa“. Jonas Bens also presented a paper. His presentation was called „Legitimate Justice in International Criminal Law in Africa – Towards an Emotional Approach?“, and dealt with the main question of project B04: Why do people perceive certain normative frames as legitimate or illegitimate and how does a closer look at at the concepts emotion and affect influence this analysis?