Category Archives: Europe

To change the we as well as the me and the you: Concluding the Symposium on Informers Up Close

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Mark Kersten

Mark A. Drumbl and Barbora Holá join JiC for this concluding contribution to our Symposium on their new book, Informers Up Close. To access all of the other contributions the symposium, please see here. So I turned myself to face me … Continue reading →

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Lustration of Informers to Promote Trust

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Mark Kersten

The following is the final contribution to our ongoing symposium on Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá’s new book Informers up Close. It was written by Cynthia Horne, a Professor Political Science at Western Washington University. To see all of the … Continue reading →

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Victims who Victimize – Understanding Informers

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Mark Kersten

The following is Irit Dekel‘s contribution to JiC’s ongoing symposium on Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá’s new book, Informers Up Close. Irit is an Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. To … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Ambivalence: Revisiting the Communist Past with Drumbl and Holá

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Mark Kersten

The following contribution to JiC’s ongoing symposium on Informers Up Close comes from Patryk I. Labuda. Patryk is an assistant professor of international law and international relations at Central European University in Vienna and a researcher on the ‘Memocracy’ project at the Polish … Continue reading →

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As the past repeats we see the ‘other’ in us all – A review of Informers Up Close

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Mark Kersten

The following contribution to Justice in Conflict’s ongoing symposium was written by Emma J Breeze, Assistant Professor in international criminal law and international humanitarian law at the University of Birmingham. For all of the other submissions, please see here. Mark … Continue reading →

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Introduction – A JiC Symposium on Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá’s Informers Up Close

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Mark Kersten

In a course that I run on responses to international crimes, I paint my students the following scenario: Canada is taken over by a brutal dictatorship that suppresses human rights. The regime lasts for twenty years before democracy is restored. … Continue reading →

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A view from Ukraine: Models for a Future International Tribunal for Russian AggressionA view from Ukraine:

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Mark Kersten

The following guest post was written by Volodymyr Pylypenko. Volodymyr holds a PhD in Law and is an Associate Professor in the International Relations Department of Lviv University of Business and Law, Ukraine. His previous post for JiC, ‘The View from Ukraine: Why a New … Continue reading →

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A Nexus for Justice: Investigating the Intersection of International Crimes and Transnational Organized Crimes

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Mark Kersten

The following are remarks that I gave on 22 September 2020 to the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya, which was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council in June of this year. The talk focused on the need to investigate … Continue reading →

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A Matter of Justice, Not Immigration: What to do with War Criminals posing as Refugees

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Mark Kersten

Rumours that terrorists have been hiding themselves among Syrian refugees and asylum seekers embarking for the shores and capitals Europe are nothing new. Especially in the wake of the Paris attacks last year, it was widely reported that groups like … Continue reading →

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Should Ukraine be on the International Criminal Court’s Radar?

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Mark Kersten

Things were supposed to settle down earlier this week when opposition activists in Kiev accepted an amnesty in exchange for vacating government buildings. Within hours, however, a new spate of violence broke out. On Wednesday evening it once again appeared … Continue reading →

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