Category: International Criminal Justice
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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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The Shadow of Impunity: Justice for the killing of Baha Mousa and lessons for Afghanistan
Elizabeth Brown Twenty years ago, on 15 September 2003, a 26-year-old Iraqi man named Baha Mousa died following catastrophic mistreatment carried out by British soldiers in a detention facility in Basra. The incident spawned a complex web of accountability efforts, including a Royal Military Police investigation, a Court Martial, a judicial review case which ultimately…
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Whither Transitional Justice? US policy, past experience and future prospects
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…