CICJ and NSCR welcome dr. Kristof Titeca from the University of Antwerp for a public lecture entitled ‘The cosmological order of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Relevance for the Ongwen trial at the International Criminal Court’. The Dominic Ongwen case at the International Criminal Court is much discussed for the victim/ perpetrator discussion: abducted as a child,…
“I would do the same again”: In Conversation with Biljana Plavšić. A public lecture by Olivera Simić – After more than 20 years in operation, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has closed down at the end of 2017. Biljana Plavšić made history by becoming the only woman, out of 161 individuals,…
CICJ’s Gabriele Chlevickaite is looking for a student assistant for her research project on insider witness’ assessments at the international criminal courts and tribunals. The project aims to empirically assess how international judges evaluate credibility and reliability of insider witnesses. At this stage of the research, Gabriele is starting an in-depth reading and coding of all…
On 12 June, CICJ and NSCR organised an Expert Meeting entitled ‘Punishing International Crimes in Domestic Courts: Sentencing, Incarceration and Reintegration’. Here you can find a report of this seminar. By Adina-Loredana Nistor. Previously published in the December 2017 issue of the Newsletter Criminology and International Crimes. “Time is the longest distance between two places.”…
The CICJ is happy to announce that Jenny Domino and Abraham Joseph have been selected as the two Global Diversity Fellows for the early summer of 2018. About fifteen applications from promising young scholars and professionals from all across the globe were received. Given the high number of suitable candidates, we are happy that we will be…