World Cup football- more than just a beautiful game

Last week the “Butcher of Bosnia,” Ratko Mladić, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War. The day his verdict and sentence were announced I happened to be in Rwanda, Kigali walking the halls of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, where […]

Victories in the field of international criminal justice at times seem few and far between. Too often, the system’s flaws and shortcomings grab headlines but as last week has shown, international criminal justice is alive and well. Last week at the International Criminal Court, we saw the confirmation of charges against Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, the […]