The Acceptance study was the first interdisciplinary research project of the Nuremberg Academy which aimed to develop comprehensive research tools for assessing the acceptance of international criminal justice in different situation countries.
The Nuremberg Academy developed an overview of German experiences with "Transitional Justice" after 1945 and after 1990.
The Nuremberg Academy launched its Guiding Principles and Recommendations which seek to enhance the potential for effective cooperation between international and national justice mechanisms on the one hand, and civil society actors on the other in the prosecution of conflict-related sexual violence.
The International Nuremberg Principles Academy conducted an interdisciplinary research project on the acceptance of international criminal justice.
The outbreak of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has lent new urgency to the issue of sexual violence in international criminal law. There was no established case law to draw upon in this field; rape and sexual violence were not among the charges in the Nuremberg Trials.
Partly in response to a growing focus on crimes committed in multiple conflicts in the Islamic world and the debate on the politics of international justice that entangles multiple themes, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy convened a conference of experts to deliberate on the theoretical and practical concerns related to accountability for core international crimes in the Muslim world.
The project aimed to address the challenges of exposing and curbing hate speech in societies that have been affected by crimes punishable under international criminal law and other gross human rights violations. While assessing the legal responses towards hate speech in particular countries, it also seeked to trace and analyze its causes and effects as well as the social, political and media discourses on hate speech.
The project "Refugees as potential witnesses of international crimes" focused on promoting deeper understanding of potential bridging and channeling of relevant information for the prosecution of core international crimes. The "Guidelines for Social Workers and Care Providers in Germany" are available for download.
The Nuremberg Academy collaborated with the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies on a research project analysing the ability of crisis and situation countries to investigate and prosecute core international crimes. The project concluded in 2020 with the publication of the methodology that has been developed following in-depth research by leading experts.
This project was based on a study of the deterrent effect of the International Criminal Court. An examination of several non-ICC situations, particularly where other tribunals have been active, provided a comparative perspective. Two countries under the jurisdiction of the ICTY (e.g. Serbia and Kosovo) as well as Sierra Leone and Rwanda were examined.