Author: Rachel Kerr
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Holding Moscow Accountable: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Aggression in Ukraine – Prospects for and Problems of Prosecution
On 12 February 2024, WCRG members James Gow and Iva Vukušić offered insights as members of a panel on the quest for justice and accountability for war crimes in Ukraine held at Princeton University. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, a manifest violation of the UN Charter, has been condemned with an overwhelming majority by the UN…
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Mirko Klarin – Transitional Justice in the former Yugoslavia loses one of its biggest proponents
On 15 December 2022, Mirko Klarin, the editor of the Sense News Agency, died at the age of 79. Since the news spread, numerous people across the former Yugoslavia and beyond have been sharing just how much he did to advance the process of facing the past in the region. He was in fact, one…
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Mark C. Wheeler (10 January 1948-7 April 2022)
An American in Britain and Bosnia — a Personal Reflection by James Gow Mark Wheeler was one of the great scholars of Yugoslavia and a profoundly engaged figure in the years after its dissolution. He made at least two contributions to the work of the International Crimi-nal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. One was the…
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Never say never? The ICC, Putin and Ukraine
by Rachel Kerr On 1 March 2022, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, QC, announced that he was able immediately to open an investigation into the situation in Ukraine. Earlier the same week, Khan had indicated that he was seeking authorisation to do so, and suggested that it could be expedited…
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Putin and the End of ‘Genocide’?
by James Gow When Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his attack on Ukraine as ‘genocide’ prevention, the hollowness was astounding, the term emptied of meaning. It has become stock for one side to cry ‘genocide’ in pretty much every violent conflict of the past three decades. Those cries usually come from those subject to attack…