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