10 May 2023, 18:30-20:00
Register start 28 April 2023
Register end 10 May 2023
Event
This event marks the launch of Professor Cécile Aptel’s new book ‘Atrocity Crimes, Children and International Criminal Courts: Killing Childhood’ published by Routledge.
In this book, Cécile Aptel – one of our faculty members and a leading expert in international criminal justice, transitional justice and child rights – shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.
The book reviews how different international and hybrid criminal jurisdictions, from the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals to the International Criminal Court, have considered international crimes committed against or by children. The book also considers how international criminal justice can help contribute to the recognition of the impact that international crimes have on children, whether as victims or as participants and strengthen their protection.
The book elucidates the many obstacles that have contributed to the international courts’ focus on the experience of adults, rendering children almost invisible. It proposes an agenda to improve this situation, calling for international investigative and prosecutorial strategies to be less adult-centric and also for the scope of crimes against children to be broadened beyond the focus on child soldiers.
Based on her book’s findings, the author will discuss with leading experts the key issues related to the investigation and prosecution of international crimes affecting children.
The book launch will be followed by a reception.
Geneva Academy
The Geneva Academy PhD Forum is a space that gathers PhD researchers and experts – in Geneva and beyond – who work in the scientific focus area of the Geneva Academy.
ICC-CPI
This online short course reviews the origins of international criminal law, its relationship with the international legal order including the UN Security Council and its coexistence with national justice institutions. The scope of international crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression – is considered alongside initiatives to expand or add to these categories.