General Approach

Ultimately the IJAF training programme should cover the complexity of analytical methods required for the investigation, prosecution and adjudication of serious international crimes and human rights violations. In terms of institutions and professional addressees this training programme aims at national and international law enforcement agencies/police and judiciary, but also NOGs, IGOs, militaries and even journalists and monitoring projects dealing with international crimes and SHRV, and facing the challenge of effectively processing huge amounts of (mostly electronically available or processed) data.

The methods we plan to teach in a first step refer to:

• approaches of judicial knowledge management (covers the process from fact-finding [see project 'fact-finding missions'], information providing NGOs, investigation, prosecution till processing of evidence and judicial information in courts);
  
• qualitative data analysis methods and software (CAQDAS) to be used;  
  
• effective presentation of findings - visualisation, GIS etc.;
  
• using the Internet for intelligence and data collection (Web 2 - 3)

The preparation of significant training courses is highly dependent on the interaction with analysts and researchers. IJA-Forum urges to flag needs for training and send comments and requests for future courses. Please use the 'Add comment' function below to send requests.