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IJA-Forum is the place where emerging issues in gross human rights violations and international core crimes analysis are discussed. Hence, it goes without saying that this is only possible with the assistance of active members and supporters working in and/or knowledgeable about the field of human rights monitoring and international criminal justice and law enforcement. Please direct IJA-Forum to crucial analytical issues which might be of interest for a broader community in international justice analysis.
State Crime Research and Theory Collective
New facebook page that was created for state crime discussions. Pleaze feel free to be a part of this and to post cases, newsfeeds of, issues related including ICL, PCJ, RJ etc. Looking forward to seeing how this venue works for discussions. Thanks goes to Dave Kauzlarich for creating the page.
Libya Situation: IJA-Forum Suggests Project on Fact-Finding – Information Support – Counselling
The central aim of the project is two-sided, on the one hand to systematically collect, archive and analyse significant information regarding the relevant facts of the violent conflict in Libya, and to provide that information in an easy to access way to the public and to the stakeholders and players in the peace-making and stabilisation process on the other.
Public Libya Monitor - coming soon
The interest in unbiased information on incidents of serious human rights violations or international crimes for the situation in Libya is constantly growing since February 2011. IJA-Forum is about to launch a Public Libya Monitor soon presenting and analysing different major presentations of facts in regard to incidents linked to different parties involved in the conflict.
Lawyers to sue Sarkozy for war crimes
Lawyers to sue Sarkozy for war crimes over Libya campaign, Tripoli press conference
Oslo Massacre - Analytical Dimensions
Shock, disgust and despair as the immediate inevitable reactions after the mass killing and bomb attack in Norway, and also preliminary attempts to 'explain' must be followed by an in-depth analysis of the history and context of the emergence and finally commission of such an act, to hopefully, produce lessons to be learned in terms of possible prevention.
Observatory on Academic Criminology Programs
Initiative of the International Society for Criminology and the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Channel 4 Documentary "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields"
Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
Peacekeeping Intelligence - Emerging Concepts for the Future, and Training of analytical skills
More than ever, intelligence services are expected to be permanently vigilant and fulfil the role of alarm bells. These expectations can only be met if the “Indication and Warning” process is performed in a professional way. This includes, among other things, the monitoring of not just conventional political and military indicators, but also less common parameters like cultural, sociological and other tailor-made indicators that have to be regularly reviewed, reassessed and updated. (Renaud Theunens, Chief Joint Mission Analysis Center (JMAC), HQ UNIFIL)
See last LLRX.com Features and Columns
The latest issue of LLRX.com Features and Columns — June, 2011 provides interesting information for criminal and legal analysis in international criminal justice.
Difficulties in building reliable war crimes data bases in Bosnia Herzegovina
After the adoption of the State War Crimes Processing Strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina crucial issues are raised in regard to its implementation, in particular related to the creation of reliable centralised data bases ...
Analytical capacity building and training for civil society projects
Analytical capacity building and training of personal skills for civil society projects monitoring human rights violations – NGO monitoring and evidence collection, civilian oversight of security forces, crowd sourcing, fact-finding missions
