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Early Warning in Atrocity Scenarios Must Account for the Effects of Technology, Good or Bad
The potential impact of technology on mass atrocity scenarios has long raised questions for experts and policymakers in the field of atrocity prevention. In the two decades since the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect norm and the emergence of atrocity prevention as a discipline, developments in the “digital revolution” and the advent of the “information age” have influenced atrocity scenarios in countless ways, both positively and negatively. Yet, despite its clear and growing importance, the subject remains underexplored and poorly understood. While the field better understands how different technologies relate to atrocities, a lack of systematic engagement with the topic and its many nuances still leaves major knowledge gaps, making it difficult to fully and constructively harness technology for prevention or to mitigate its harmful effects. Read more
Thinking Beyond Risks: A Symposium on Tech and Atrocity Prevention
This symposium seeks to identify opportunities for governments and civil society to harness both new and established technologies for atrocity prevention, as well as to proactively mitigate associated risks. Experts will outline, for example, the impact of technology on early warning, how social media has affected atrocity dynamics and how it might be harnessed to further adherence to the laws of war, and even how camera-fitted drones can aid accountability. Read more
Conceptualizing Great Power Perpetrators
This article aims to inform ongoing debates by scrutinising veto patterns through UN history; by adding nuance to discussions by addressing shifting geopolitics and by drawing attention to global cooperation; by leveraging the analysis of the 'Great Power Perpetrator'; and by discussing how the system itself seems to be morphing in response to the challenges and what this means for global cooperation moving forward. Read more
The Ten-Year Revolution: Civil Society Documentation in International Criminal Justice
Journal of International Criminal Justice, May 2024 Read more
Prosecution of Russian Corporations for War Crimes in Ukraine as a Precursor to Seizure of Frozen Corporate Assets in Foreign Jurisdictions
White Paper published by the Public International Law & Policy Group. The paper develops a legal framework whereby foreign courts may satisfy financial awards by Ukrainian courts against Russian corporations when judgment is rendered against that corporation in either a criminal prosecution or a civil action alleging support of, complicity in, or aiding and abetting the commission of war crimes or other atrocities in Ukraine. Read more
Developing a UK Atrocity Prevention Strategy
Policy Brief, Oxford Programme for International Peace and Security, January 2023 Read more
Mainstreaming Atrocity Prevention
Policy Brief, Oxford Programme for International Peace and Security, November 2022 Read more
Technological Change and the UN Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes
Policy Paper, Stimson Center, July 2022 Read more
Operationalizing Obligations to Prevent Mass Atrocities: Proposing Atrocity Impact Assessments as Due Diligence Best Practice
Journal Article, Journal of Human Rights Practice, July 2022 Read more
Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities – The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil International Investigative Mandates
Policy Brief, Oxford Programme for International Peace and Security, July 2022 Read more
Written Evidence Submission to UK Parliamentary Inquiry on the UK Response to the Myanmar Crisis
Written Evidence, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, May 2022 Read more
Written Evidence Submission to UK Parliamentary Inquiry on the Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Written Evidence, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, May 2022 Read more
Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities – The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil UN Investigative Mandates
This research paper examines the role of UN investigative mandates in probing serious violations of international human rights, humanitarian and, increasingly, international criminal law, as well as their role within the broader international justice ecosystem. Read more
We Need International Agreement on How to Handle These Dangerous Technologies
Online Article, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, March 2022 Read more
Mainstreaming Atrocity Prevention: Seeing Fragility, Conflict and Violence Programming Through an Atrocity Prevention Lens
Policy Brief, Oxford Programme for International Peace and Security, February 2022 Read more
Written Evidence Submission to UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Government’s Approach to Atrocity Prevention
Written Evidence, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, January 2022 Read more
Rethinking Health Security After COVID-19
Policy Paper, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, May 2021 Read more
Promises and Challenges of New Actors and New Technologies in International Justice
Journal Article, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, June 2021 Read more
Written Evidence Submission to UK Parliamentary Inquiry on UK Trade and Security Relationship with China
Written Evidence, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, April 2021 Read more
Advancing Justice for Children: Innovations to Strengthen Accountability for Violations and Crimes Affecting Children in Conflict
Policy Report, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, March 2021 Read more
Written Evidence Submission to the UK Parliamentary Inquiry on Xinjiang
Written Evidence, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, December 2020 Read more
Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities: Providing the Permanent Support Necessary to Fulfil International Investigative Mandates (Part II)
Blog Post, Opinio Juris, September 2020 Read more
Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities: Providing the Support Necessary to Fulfil International Investigative Mandates (Part I)
Blog Post, Opinio Juris, September 2020 Read more
A Reoriented Approach to Atrocity Prevention in UN Peace Operations
White Papers Series, Oxford Programme for International Peace and Security, June 2020 Read more