In a recent post on the EJIL:Talk! blog, CICJ’s Marjolein Cupido and Lachezar Yanev discuss the implications for ICC law of the decision on confirmation of charges in the case against Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona in the situation of the Central African Republic. They argue that it is quite surprising that this decision has…
The increasing use of social media and mobile devices by asylum seekers offers new vetting opportunities for immigration authorities, to verify the identity or to assess national-security or 1F-exclusion aspects. In the Journal of Refugee Studies, Maarten Bolhuis and Joris van Wijk describe and analyse the growing reliance on social media and smartphone screening by…
In a recently published article in the Journal of International Criminal Justice, CICJ researchers Gabriele Chlevickaite, Barbora Hola and Catrien Bijleveld, re-examine the methods of judicial witness assessments in light of the scientific validity of the criteria applied. Accurate assessment of witness testimonies underpins judicial fact-finding at international criminal courts and tribunals (ICCTs). However, the…
In the context of the Angola and Transitional Justice project, CICJ researcher Joris van Wijk has co-written an opinion article at Justiceinfo.net on Angola’s reversed “forgive and forget” policy on past atrocities. The Angolan government recently came up with a reconciliation plan to honour the memory of victims that, Van Wijk and his co-author argue,…
This January, an exciting new research project sees the daylight. The project ‘Eyewitness Memory in Cross-Cultural Contexts’ is a collaboration between the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) and the Center for International Criminal Justice (CICJ), financed by an European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to Annelies Vredeveldt. Our increasingly international society demands that eyewitnesses of serious crimes…