Author: Rachel Kerr

Arta Uka On 30 January 2025, the Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network, the Art and Conflict Hub and the War Crimes Research Group hosted a screening of Kumjana Novakova’s film, Silence of Reason. The screening was followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A with Director Kumjana Novakova, Cécile Bourne-Farrell and Professor Denisa Kostovicova and…

Zala Pochat-Krizaj With the recent fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime and his escape from the country on 8 December 2024, Syria has begun to unravel the extent of the human rights atrocities committed since the war started in 2011. Mass graves are being uncovered gradually, providing clues as to what happened to the thousands…

Research Workshop, King’s College London, 11 April 2025 Penumbras and Grey Zones in International Law and War Uncertainty, or indeterminacy, about law, facts and the future together mean that international lawyers necessarily and inevitably rely on “extra-legal considerations” — politics, ethics, strategy — when dealing with legal decisions and disputes about “hard cases”. Many international…

‘Art and Reconciliation’ — Persistent Illusions: the History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina’s Role in the Strategic Curation and Memorialisation of Mass Atrocity, and Peacebuilding A fully funded LISS-DTP CASE PhD studentship with the War Crimes Research Group, King’s College London, in close collaboration with the History Museum of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sarajevo. Award details…