On Tuesday 16 March from 16:00-17:30 CET, Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute (ALTI) and CICJ welcome Lindsay Freeman for a guest lecture entitled ‘The Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations: Creating New Norms at the Interface of International Criminal Justice and Technology’. Conflicts in the technology age generate large amounts of open source data,…
Francesca Anzovino, Gabriele Chlevickaite and Maarten Bolhuis have been appointed as the new board of CICJ. The new board will serve a two-year term. If you’re looking to come in touch with CICJ, you can reach us at cicj [at] vu.nl. The new board thanks the previous board and in particular the former directors Barbora…
On 9 February, from 13.45 CET, CICJ researcher Eva Whitehead will defend her PhD thesis entitled “Breaking the Chain of Command. Toward a theoretical framework: Explaining how and why soldiers disobey illegal orders.” Given the recent information about the atrocities committed by Australian special forces in Afghanistan a very topical subject indeed. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Dr. Barbora Holá, co-director of CICJ and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement was awarded a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros for a project entitled ‘From the Past Back to the Future: Intergenerational legacies of mass atrocities’. Mass atrocities committed during genocides, wars and state repressions have…
On 25 November at 14:30 CET, CICJ will host an online guest lecture by Dr. Carla Ferstman entitled ‘Reparation “for” victims in interstate proceedings: the challenges and prospects for the ICJ to advance victims’ rights’. Nowadays, victims of international crimes are granted various substantive and procedural rights under international law. Nevertheless, precise contours of their…