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Two journalists, one haircut, tons of opinions on international justice. Hosted by @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
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Out Now: What is the state of accountability for the children of Ukraine?

We asked @thordiskolbrun.bsky.social, the Council of Europe's Special Representative on this issue, what we know today about the children + which avenues for justice are there

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Justice Update – Accountability for Ukraine’s Children
What do we know now about the illegal transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia and what kind of crime might it be? We chat to Thordis Gylfadottir of the Council of Europe. If you found this inte…
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Joined my friends in discussing one of my favourite books. #Accountability #Justice #ICTY #WarCrimes
Out tomorrow on #Patreon
We reviewed 'They Would Never Hurt a Fly' by Slavenka Drakulić with friend of the pod @vukusiciva.bsky.social

We asked Iva what she thought when she first read the book when it came out in 2003, and what atmosphere there was in terms of accountability for war crimes
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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We reviewed 'They Would Never Hurt a Fly' by Slavenka Drakulić with friend of the pod @vukusiciva.bsky.social

We asked Iva what she thought when she first read the book when it came out in 2003, and what atmosphere there was in terms of accountability for war crimes
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The #Nuremberg records and #archives made available, and that's great. Now the same spirit of long-term preservation and access should carry over to the #ICTY, as it's records are in danger of being wiped off the internet. #WarCrimes #Accountability #Justice
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Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
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November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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This is great!
I’ll be teaching a lecture on aggression and the special tribunal for Ukraine in two weeks and there’s so much to unpack 😍 definitely adding this to the list of “other material” for the students! (Joining many more Asymmetrical Haircuts episodes!)
This week: the special features of the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine! Trials in absentia, and the thorny issue of personal immunity (or not) for heads of state for international crimes.

Episode out now👇
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Justice Update – Ukraine’s Special Tribunal in Practice
This week’s pod is on Ukraine’s Special Tribunal – from trials without the accused to who gets immunity to whether the new tribunal could be a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. If …
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November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This week: the special features of the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine! Trials in absentia, and the thorny issue of personal immunity (or not) for heads of state for international crimes.

Episode out now👇
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Justice Update – Ukraine’s Special Tribunal in Practice
This week’s pod is on Ukraine’s Special Tribunal – from trials without the accused to who gets immunity to whether the new tribunal could be a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. If …
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Out tomorrow:

Could Vladimir Putin be found guilty by an international tribunal without him ever entering the courtroom?

This week’s pod this very topic: Trials in Absentia and how they will work at the new Ukraine Special Tribunal.

With @janethanderson.bsky.social @svdberg.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Out Now: What is the state of accountability for the children of Ukraine?

We asked @thordiskolbrun.bsky.social, the Council of Europe's Special Representative on this issue, what we know today about the children + which avenues for justice are there

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Justice Update – Accountability for Ukraine’s Children
What do we know now about the illegal transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia and what kind of crime might it be? We chat to Thordis Gylfadottir of the Council of Europe. If you found this inte…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Out tomorrow!
What more do we know now about the illegal deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children when #Russia invaded #Ukraine?

We talked to the Council of Europe’s special representative for the children of Ukraine, @thordiskolbrun.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Loved speaking to @janethanderson.bsky.social and @svdberg.bsky.social about accountability pathways for Afghanistan, opportunities and limitations. Thank you for having me on. Very excited to have been on @asymmetricalh.bsky.social. Was nervous tbh
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#Afghanistan [podcast] 🎧 - There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.

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Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan
There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains ho...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Out now!
Catch up with all the latest developments on accountability for the women of #Afghanistan including prospects for the new investigative mechanism and the recent Women’s Tribunal. Along with developments at #ICJ and #ICC.

Listen here 👇

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Episode 147 – Afghanistan Accountability Avenues with Shaharzad Akbar
What are the realistic avenues to accountability especially for the women of Afghanistan. Shaharzad Akbar dicusses all the current possibilities. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave u…
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November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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We take you behind the scenes at a recent People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan where Afghan women testified about discrimination, humiliation and torture, living under the Taliban regime.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Out Now!
In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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Episode 146 – When Is It A War? with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg
With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, we ask ‘when is war’ and whet…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Out now on #Patreon🎙
What does it feel like to be translating the horrors of war, recounted by the victims & the perpetrators? We sat together to watch and discuss in real time the New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War'
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October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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What’s really going on with the ‘war on drugs’ that has led to the US killing dozens of alleged drug dealers off the coast of Venezuela Colombia & most recently Mexico?
How is "a non-international armed conflict" legally defined?
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social explain
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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We watched The New Yorker documentary 'In Flow of Words: Translating the Trauma of War' together at the
Hague Humanity Hub & reacted to it in REAL TIME!

We discuss how interpreters at intl trials can be impacted by what they hear from victims + perpetrators
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Want to know details of the statute for the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine? How will it work? Our main interlocutor is Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s ambassador to The Hague and former prosecutor general.
Episode out now👇
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Justice Update – Checking in with Ukraine’s New Aggression Tribunal
This week’s Justice Update is all about the new Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression – created specifically to hold the Russian Federation to account for its war of aggression i…
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October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Coming tomorrow: We are getting our heads around the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. But there’s still a lot of detail to be ironed out.

Andriy Kostin, now ambassador in The Hague explains why Kyiv needed this Special Tribunal agreed.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Check out our special episode, introducing our Bookclub over on #Patreon. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social is one of our occasional contributors there. She recommended and reviewed Michel Trouillot’s Silencing the Past for us. One of her faves

Episode out now👇

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Bonus episode – The War Criminals Bookclub on Patreon
This Bonus Episode introduces you to our Patreon feed, where every month we do a bonus episode of the War Criminals Book Club. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Question to my followers: is anyone working on the intersection of international law/norm contestation and memory politics? Please be in touch if you are...
October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria

From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".

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Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds
From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing
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October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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⚖️ #InternationalCourtofJustice [podcast] 🎧 - Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the ICJ, this new podcast updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.

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ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool
Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircut updates the practices and techniques ...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There’s a lot going on at the ICJ including the return of ‘ghost’ cases. Juliette McIntyre explains what’s going on & looks ahead to the big genocide case coming up on #Myanmar - how will it affect the #Israel case that follows?
Episode out now👇
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Episode 145 – Lawfare at the Busiest Court in The Hague with Juliette McIntyre
Juliette McIntyre explains what’s happening at the International Court of Justice and what she’ll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe …
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October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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UN establishes “ongoing independent investigative mechanism to
collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence” of international crimes, the most serious violations of international law, and human rights violations in #Afghanistan documents.un.org/doc/undoc/lt...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM