JiC on FB!
To keep the site going, please consider donating.
Follow Justice in Conflict on Twitter!
- Israel will not investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing. The Israeli military believes the investigation would lead… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- Congrats @A_Wanigasuriya ! ⭐️ twitter.com/imarchukcph/st… 1 hour ago
- RT @IMarchukCPH: Our #ICL academic community just got bigger. Congratulations to Dr Wanigasuriya @A_Wanigasuriya on the successful defence… 1 hour ago
- RT @MarkKersten: The absence of justice for the crime of aggression in Iraq made the crime of aggression in Ukraine more possible. George… 14 hours ago
- A very special call for papers in the memory of Rob Cryer, and a conference to "channel this loss... into an event,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 18 hours ago
Blogroll
- A Contario
- Aidnography
- Communis Hostis Omnium
- Diane Marie Amann
- EJIL: Talk!
- Global Memo
- Global Transitional Justice
- Harry M. Rhea's International Criminal Justice Blog
- IFAIR
- International Justice – RNW
- International Justice Central
- IntLawGrrls
- Law and Security Strategy
- Lawyers for Justice in Libya
- LieberCode
- Making Sense of Sudan
- Notts Law PhD
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- Opinio Juris
- Peter Quayle
- PhD Studies in Human Rights
- Re-Thinking International Criminal Justice in Africa
- Rob Crilly
- Securing Rights
- Spreading the Jam
- Texas in Africa
- The American Exception
- The Disorder of Things
- The Duck of Minerva
- The International Jurist
- The Lex Specialis
- The Multilateralist
- The Rights' Future
- Turtle Bay
- UN Dispatch
- War and Law
- Wired Danger Room
- Wronging Rights
Top Posts & Pages
- After all this time, why has Ukraine not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?
- Calling abuses against migrants in Libya what they are: war crimes and crimes against humanity
- JiC Contributors
- Calling COVID-19 vaccine mandates a ‘crime against humanity’ isn’t just wrong, it’s dangerous
- Shifting Narratives: Ongwen and Lubanga on the Effects of Child Soldiering
- The ICC is Free to Investigate Ukraine since 2014. So What Now?
- Crimes against migrants and asylum seekers in Libya: Here’s how the ICC Has Jurisdiction
- Transitional Justice at Sites of ‘Dark Tourism’: The Case of Genocide Memorials in Cambodia
- The Forgotten Victim of War: The Natural Environment in Ukraine
- Grey Zones: Is International Law Fit for Purpose to Protect Civilians?
Blog Stats
- 1,983,830 hits
Categories
- "Peace versus Justice" Debate
- #MeToo
- Academic Articles / Books
- Activism
- Ad hoc tribunals
- Admissibility
- Advocacy
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA)
- Africa-ICC Expert Panel
- African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African Union (AU)
- Ahmad Al Mahdi Al Faqi (Abou Tourab)
- Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud
- al-Shabaab
- Al-Tuhamy Mohamed Khaled
- Amnesty
- Apartheid
- Apologies
- Arab League
- Arab Spring
- Archives
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Arms Deals
- Arms Trade
- Article 16
- Article 98
- Asia
- Assembly of States Parties
- Asset Recovery
- Asylum-Seekers
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Balkans
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Bilateral Immunity Agreements
- Black Lives Matter
- Books and Publications
- Bosco Ntaganda
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burma/Myanmar
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Canadian Partnership of International Justice
- Central African Republic (CAR)
- Chad
- Chagos Islands
- Chambres Africaines Extraordinaires (CAE)
- Child Soldiers
- Chile
- China
- Climate Change
- Colombia
- Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)
- Commission of Inquiry
- Complementarity
- Conferences
- Conflict Resolution
- Coups
- Crime of Aggression
- Crimes against humanity
- Croatia
- Cultural Crimes
- Czech Republic
- Darfur
- Defendants
- Defense Counsel
- Deferral
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Deportation
- Deputy Prosecutor
- Deterrence
- Development
- Diplomatic Assurances
- Djibouti
- Dominic Ongwen ICC
- Donald Trump
- Donetsk
- Drones
- Ecocide
- Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS)
- Economics of Conflict
- Egypt
- Elections
- Enforced Disappearance
- Environment
- Eritrea
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Europe
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union (EU)
- Events
- Exile
- Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Famine
- FARC
- Fatou Bensouda
- FIFA
- Film
- France
- Funding
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gaza
- Gender
- Genocide
- Georgia
- Germain Katanga
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gravity
- Gregory Kersten
- Guantanamo Bay
- Guatemala
- Guest Posts
- Guinea Bissau
- Hissène Habré
- Historical Justice
- Holocaust
- Honduras
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Humanitarian Intervention
- Humour
- Hybrid Court for South Sudan
- Hybrid Courts
- Hybrid Justice Symposium
- Hybrid Tribunals
- ICC President
- ICC Prosecutor
- ICC Registry
- ICTY
- IDP
- Immigration
- Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM)
- Indigenous Peoples
- International and Organized Crimes Division of Kenya
- International Court of Justice
- International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- International Crimes Division (Uganda)
- International Criminal Court (ICC)
- International Criminal Justice
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Justice Ambassador
- International Justice Day
- International Law
- Interview
- Interviews
- Investigations
- Iran
- Iraq
- ISIS
- Islamic State
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire
- Ivory Coast and the ICC
- Jean-Pierre Bemba
- JiC News
- Jordan (not Michael)
- Journalism
- Judges
- Justice
- Justice in Conflict
- Kenya
- Kenya and the ICC
- Kimberly Process
- Kosovo
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
- Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution (KRSJI)
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers
- Kurdistan
- Kuwait
- Kwoyelo Trial
- Latin America
- Laurent Gbagbo
- Lawfare
- Lebanon
- Legacy
- Liberal Peace
- Liberia
- Libya
- Libya and International Justice Symposium
- Libya and the ICC
- Libyan National Army
- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
- Lugansk
- Luis Moreno-Ocampo
- Lustration
- Mahmoud al-Werfalli
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mass Atrocity Monday
- Mauritania
- Memorialization
- Middle East
- Migration
- Missing Persons
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- NATO
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Next ICC Prosecutor
- Next Prosecutor Symposium
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Ireland
- northern Uganda
- Norway
- Nuremberg
- Nuremberg Trials
- Ocampo Six
- Office of the Prosecutor
- Omar al-Bashir
- Osama bin Laden
- Osama bin Laden and international law
- Outreach
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Palestine and ICC Symposium
- Palestine and R2P Symposium
- Palestine and the ICC
- Paraguay
- Peace and Justice in Colombia Symposium
- Peace Negotiations
- Peace Processes
- Peacebuilding
- Peru
- Poland
- Policy Papers
- Politics of Memory
- Preliminary Examinations
- Qatar
- Ratko Mladic
- Refugees
- Reparations
- Responsibiltiy to Protect (R2P)
- Restorative Justice
- Rethinking Peace and Justice Symposium
- Rohingya
- Rome Statute
- Rome Statute ratifications
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Rwandan Genocide
- Sanctions
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sentencing
- Serbia
- Sexual and Gender Based Violence
- Sexual Violence
- Sierra Leone
- Simone Gbagbo
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Social Media
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South America
- South Ossetia
- South Sudan
- Southern Sudan
- Spain
- Special African Chamber (CAE)
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Special Court for SIerra Leone (SCSL)
- Special Criminal Court
- Special Jurisdiction for Peace
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Sport
- Sri Lanka
- Starvation
- Sudan
- Symposium
- Syria
- Taliban
- Tanzania
- Teaching Tools
- Terrorism
- The Gambia
- The ICC’s Impact on National Justice Symposium
- The Life and Trials of Dominic Ongwen: A JiC Symposium
- The Netherlands
- The Tripoli Three (Tripoli3)
- Thomas Dyilo Lubanga
- Thomas Lubanga
- Torture
- Traditional Justice Mechanisms
- Transitional Justice
- Transnational Criminal Law
- Transnational Organized Crime
- Trials in Absentia
- Trust Fund for Victims
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Truth Commission
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- UN Commission of Inquiry on Sri Lanka
- UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria
- UN General Assembly
- UN Security Council
- Uncategorized
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- United States
- Universal Jurisdiction
- Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican
- Venezuela
- Victim Participation
- Vladimir Putin
- War crimes
- Wayamo Foundation
- Witnesses
- Yahya Jammeh
- Yazidi Genocide
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Category Archives: Iraq
Killing Soleimani: A View through the Prism of International Human Rights
Marilena Stegbauer joins JiC for this guest-post on the killing of Qassim Soleimani. Marilena is a socio-legal researcher who strongly believes in promoting accountability for human rights violations worldwide. She holds an LL.M. in International Criminal Law (cum laude) from … Continue reading
Posted in Drones, Guest Posts, International Law, Iran, Iraq, United States
Tagged Marilena Stegbauer, Qassim Soleimani
2 Comments
International Criminal Justice – A New Feature of Middle East Politics?
With its landmark decision to authorize an investigation into Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will embark upon unknown territory. Not only will it investigate alleged atrocities committed by the Afghan military and the Taliban, it will also – for … Continue reading
Options on the Table: A Hybrid Tribunal to Prosecute ISIL fighters
Amr Jomaa joins JiC for this post on the possible means to prosecute Islamic State fighters for international crimes. Amr a Project Officer for the MENA division at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, specializing in international human rights and transitional justice … Continue reading
The ICC’s Impact on National Justice – A Symposium
This post introducing JiC’s joint symposium with EJIL:Talk! was written by Dapo Akande and Mark Kersten. Dapo is Professor of Public International Law, Fellow of Exeter College (since April 2018) and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict … Continue reading
Confronting the Use of Child Soldiers in Iraq
Laura Nacyte joins JiC for this post on need for accountability for the use of child soldiers in Iraq. Laura is an MSc graduate of Global Security from the University of Glasgow where she wrote the dissertation “The Copenhagen School Meets … Continue reading
Posted in Child Soldiers, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Truth Commission
2 Comments
Prosecuting War Crimes in Syria: Many Tribulations, But No Trials (Yet)
This article was originally published as a contribution to Cicero Magazine. You can find the original article here. What the United States called Russia’s “barbarism” in Syria, the United Kingdom referred to as Moscow’s “war crimes”. Russia responded by stating … Continue reading
That Time the Bush Administration (Probably) Kiboshed Iraq’s ICC Membership
In recent weeks, the internet has featured hundreds of articles exclaiming the need to investigate atrocities perpetrated in Iraq. Many continue to insist that UK officials who are responsible for alleged war crimes during the British and American occupation of … Continue reading
Let’s Avoid Politicizing the Genocide Against Yazidis
There is no doubt that genocidal acts have been perpetrated against the Yazidi people by the Islamic State (ISIS). A recent report by United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has given credence to political declarations in the United States, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), Genocide, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Justice Ambassador, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Syria, Terrorism, UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States, Yazidi Genocide
Tagged Justin Trudeau
13 Comments
Confused Partisan Bluster won’t Bring Blair to Justice – Or Serve Accountabilty in Iraq
There are many who dream of the day when former British prime minister Tony Blair faces a panel of judges and answers to allegations that he was responsible for war crimes in Iraq. There are dozens of memes with Blair’s … Continue reading