War Crimes Research

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  • Call for Papers: Penumbras and Grey Zones in International Law and War

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    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…

  • The Mobilisation of South African Civil Society in the Al Bashir matter

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    Professor Mia Swart 5 June 2017, 1700-1830 K-1.56, King’s Building, King’s College London Registration here: http://bit.ly/2rvBJF Since the start of the controversial Al-Bashir saga in South Africa, South African civil society mobilisation played a vital role in alerting the South African government to its duties as a state party to the Rome Statute. Swart’s paper…

  • CfP: Reconciliation After War (Crimes): Historical Perspectives

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    Interdisciplinary workshop, King’s College London, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Reconciliation is often cited as a key objective in the aftermath of violent conflict, where goals of peace, justice and reconciliation are seen as not only complementary but mutually reinforcing. But it is often unclear what, precisely, is meant by reconciliation, how, exactly, different…

  • Three Weddings and 8,000 funerals

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    Command and Responsibility at Srebrenica revisited: The Mladić and Karadžić Trials and the Legacy of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. Professor James Gow, King’s College London Location War Studies Meeting Room (K. 6.07) Category Lecture When 21/03/2017 (18:00-19:30) Registration URL http://bit.ly/2mjlDOF In 2013, Professor James Gow was awarded a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to examine the…

  • Whither Transitional Justice? US policy, past experience and future prospects

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    Zachary Kaufman in conversation with Rachel Kerr Monday 9 May, 1200-1330 War Studies Meeting Room, K6.07 King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London Zachary D. Kaufman, JD, Ph.D., is a Fellow (starting July 1, Senior Fellow) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law…