atrocities/mass atrocities

The SAFEGUARD Act provides a pathway for Congress to push for accountability for the violence linked to U.S. arms sales.

Congress can bring justice for victims of crimes against humanity by passing a statute with universal jurisdiction.

Even at the U.N., no clear direction has emerged. In June, the U.N.’s top official on R2P, George Okoth-Obbo, said he would resign from his role as Special Advisor after just…

Despite a tendency to analyze global divisions over aggression trials through a “West” versus “Global South” binary, the longer-term stakes of accountability for Ukraine…

The Syrian government still has not been held accountable for its brutal chemical weapons attack on Ghouta ten years ago.

Efforts to protect populations from atrocity crimes are unlikely to advance without an empowered senior U.N. official at the helm.

The US, Russia, and other world powers have avenues both to halt the current situation and to pursue justice and accountability.

The government of The Gambia, ECOWAS, and the AU have a responsibility to action the decades-long justice and accountability demands of the victims and survivors of the Jammeh-era…

A Joint Symposium with Articles of War on U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine investigation

Seeking to ensure all such horrors – Auschwitz, Srebrenica, Bergen-Belsen, Kigali, Bucha – are integrated into the world’s consciousness.

Are they meaningful if condemnation is followed blithely by economic engagement with the same actors who committed the violations?

For all the advances made by international justice, a powerful American former secretary of state still seems beyond its grasp.