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Nuremberg Summer Academy for Young Professionals 2023 (anglophone edition)

 
The International Nuremberg Principles Academy is pleased to announce the upcoming anglophone edition of the Nuremberg Summer Academy for Young Professionals which will be held online from 31 July to 11 August 2023. Admission to the Nuremberg Summer Academy is competitive. Participants are carefully selected among a pool of several hundred applicants, with a special focus on young professionals… Learn more  
Public Discourse

Legal Trainees from Regensburg Visited the Nuremberg Academy

 
A group of legal trainees from the Regional Court of Regensburg visited the Nuremberg Academy and the Memorium Nuremberg Trials, on 25 July 2023. Director Professor Dr Christoph Safferling welcomed them at the Academy after they had visited the Memorium. After a first round of questions and answers, the documentary "The Trial of the Jurists" was screened and discussed together. In the last part… Learn more  
Capacity Strengthening

Team from Strathmore University won the Nuremberg Moot Court 2023

 
The ninth edition of the Nuremberg Moot Court ended on Saturday, 22 July 2023, in Nuremberg. The international competition organised by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the International Criminal Law Research Unit (ICLU) of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), welcomed around 120 law students of 32 universities this year. For the first time since the… Learn more  
Capacity Strengthening

Training for Ivorian Judicial Police

 
The Nuremberg Academy partnered with the Observatoire Ivoirien des Droits de l’Homme (OIDH) to organise a specialised training course on core international crimes for members of the judicial police and gendarmerie of Côte d’Ivoire. The seminar was conducted from 20 to 22 July 2023 in Daloa. Apart from foundational sessions on the history and elements of the core international crimes, the… Learn more  
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Understanding Acceptance of International Justice through Duch's Sentence at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

 
The chapter discusses several aspects of the acceptance of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) by legal professionals, political elites, as well as victims and the general public. It focuses on the verdict of the first trial, which was later overruled in a decision by the Appeals Chamber. In 2010, Kaing Guek Eav alias ’Duch’, was initially sentenced to 35 years in prison,… Learn more  
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Layered Justice: Assessing the Acceptance of the Multiple International Criminal Justice Mechanisms in Post-War Kosovo

 
The violent conflict in Kosovo from 1998-1999 was marked by severe human rights abuses. According to the Kosovo Memory Book (2014), 13,517 people were killed or went missing, both civilians and members of armed forces. This includes 10,415 Albanians, 2,197 Serbs, and 528 Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians. UNCHR accounts in 1999 refer to 700,000 refugees and 70,000 homes that had been damaged… Learn more  
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Changing Patterns of Acceptance. International Criminal Justice after the Rwandan Genocide

 
On 7 April 1994, after an attack on an aircraft carrying the then President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana, a killing machine moved into action in an attempt to extinguish all Tutsi in the Central African country, Rwanda. In just 100 days, about 800,000 Tutsi, as well as a number of Hutu political opponents, were murdered by Hutu militias, government troops and Hutu community members. In many… Learn more  
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Acceptance of the International Criminal Court in Côte d’Ivoire: Between the Hope for Justice and the Concern of ‘Victor’s Justice’

 
The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011 marked the end of a decade of political instability in Côte d’Ivoire. In October 2000, Gbagbo was elected President of said country but was defeated in a presidential election in 2010 by the former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara. Gbagbo rejected the results, and both he and Ouattara, took the presidential oath, sparking violence that claimed the lives… Learn more  
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Methodology

 
The acceptance assessment methodology provides basic guidance for scholars interested in researching the acceptance of international criminal justice in situation countries. It discusses possible approaches to operationalize the subject by exploring more in detail the relevant aspects of such a study (institutions, actors, context, and acceptance itself). The methodology document was developed by… Learn more  
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Acceptance of International Criminal Justice and the Path to the International Criminal Court in Palestine

 
On 1 April 2015, Palestine became the 123rd state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 17 July 1998. According to the statute’s principles, Palestine, like any ICC member-state, must ‘exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes’. However, Palestine is a special case in ICC history for several reasons. First, the question of… Learn more  
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