- Upcomming activity
- Latest activity
- Agenda
- Blog
Upcomming activity
17th Assembly of State Parties ICC

From the 5th until the 12th of December the 17th ASP of the ICC is going to take place at the World Forum in The Hague. The GNF will be present throughout the event.
Latest activity

Latest activity
5th GNF Master Class: Political Expediency behind International Criminal Courts
The 5th GNF Master Class was held from 02 to 13 July 2018 at the Inter-University Centre for Post-Graduate Studies (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
See the Report for further information.
Agenda
Agenda

Blog

Blog
Brammertz’s observations about closing of ICTY - critisized
I am surprised to read ICTY Chief Prosecutor Brammertz’s observations about links made at the Tribunal between crimes committed in Bosnia and Croatia and the state of Serbia.
I am surprised to read ICTY Chief Prosecutor Brammertz’s observations about links made at the Tribunal between crimes committed in Bosnia and Croatia and the state of Serbia. He cites no court decisions. The indictment policy of the tribunal let Serbia off the hook. There was no serious effort in the Karadzic or Mladic cases to prove the links and judgments in both cases allow Serbia to claim itself to be an uninvolved party and that Bosnia Serbs were barely worse than other perpetrators.
How this came about is hard to explain although none of the prosecutors, except me, tried properly to prove those links and the case I prosecuted, Milošević, ended with Milošević’s death, apparently from natural causes convenient though that was to all Serbian and International interests.
Master class
“Political Expediency behind International Criminal Courts”
The 5th GNF Master Class was held from 02 to 13 July 2018 at the Inter-University Centre for Post-Graduate Studies (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
See the Report below for further information.
“Law and Politics of Terrorism: In Search of Adequate Political, Military and Legal Responses to the Threat of Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Era"
This annual Master Class, the fourth since 2014, was held between 03 July and 14 July 2017 at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is a joint venture by the Geoffrey Nice Foundation, the University of Amsterdam and the Serbian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
"Beyond the Reach of Law: Emerging World Order and the Search for Adequate Responses to Political Violence“
This Master Class addressed the new challenges humanity has been facing after the end of the Cold War 25 years ago. It explored military, political, diplomatic, humanitarian and legal responses to political violence and mass atrocities in armed conflicts and in state oppression based on four case studies – Iran, North Korea, Gaza and the Balkans.
“Law and Politics of Genocide: 20 Years After Srebrenica"
The work done by international and national criminal tribunals dealing with mass atrocities has highlighted the need to research the impact of legal proceedings concerned with war crimes on historical and other interpretations of the causes and consequences of armed conflicts and of the atrocities committed in armed conflicts.
"On Law, History, Politics and Society in the Context of Mass Atrocities”
International and national criminal tribunals dealing with mass atrocities have highlighted the need to research the impact of legal procedures on historical interpretations of armed conflicts, war violence, its causes, and consequences. In the unfolding scholarly debate about the impact of international criminal courts, there is growing understanding that criminal proceedings dealing with mass atrocities and political violence always have a number of ‘extra-legal’ impacts, which yet have to be articulated fully.
Interested in our upcomming activities?
About the
Geoffrey Nice Foundation
The objective of the Foundation is to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of International Criminal Justice delivered by courts, truth commissions and in other ways. The Foundation seeks to achieve its goals through training and education programmes, together with other activities, which embrace legal, historical, political and sociological disciplines and their respective methodologies. It operates with students, researchers and academics of these disciplines from different countries, studying and working together. Master Classes take place annually under the general title “Law, History, Politics, and Society in the Context of Mass Atrocities” with different specific programmes for each year.
Read More