Category: Transitional Justice
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Mass graves in Syria: challenges for justice, accountability and prosecution
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…
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PhD funding opportunity!
‘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…
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Agnes Wanjiru, the British armed forces and the language of silence
Elizabeth Brown In recent years, two prominent British public institutions – the Metropolitan Police and the armed forces – have faced significant criticism regarding their ability to protect women both in the community and within their own organisations. Both have faced a multitude of allegations of bullying, harassment, sexual assault, and inadequate investigatory procedures, within…
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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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Frenki and Johnny were War Criminals… Just About, or The Last Judgement
By James Gow Almost unnoticed, the last international trial for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia was completed on 30 June 2021. The chief of the Serbian security service and his deputy were found guilty on five charges relating to just a single crime, while acquitting them of all other crimes charged. Bosanski Šamac was…