Category: War Crimes
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Embodying Evidence: 30 Years Ago Today
30 years ago today, the court began to play – for real. James Gow On Tuesday 7 May 1996, the usher opened the witness entrance door to the Trial Chamber and asked how it felt to be making history… After my brief hesitation, he added ‘you’ll be in the history books now.’ In August 1994,…
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Nuremberg Film Review
by Chloe Smith Theatrical release poster from Wikipedia James Vanderbilt’s new historical drama Nuremberg takes as its subject matter the trial of the Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of the Second World War. For nearly two and a half hours, the film centres on perpetrators; exploring the Nazi psyche through its portrayal of Hermann…
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Film Screening: Silence of Reason + Q&A with Director Kumjana Novakova
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…
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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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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…