Podcast

Episode 4 Raji Abdul Salam On Turning Records Into Evidence

Dr. Ulrike Lühe speaks with Raji Abdul Salam of the Reckoning Project. They discuss digital evidence, AI’s impact, and the ethics of archiving everything. “I always trust the archive that has a methodology,” Raji argues. “But I don’t trust the people who manage it.”

Episode 3: Robert Petit – Managing Evidence For Future Accountability In Syria

Dagmar Hovestädt speaks with Robert Petit, a long-term prosecutor of international crimes – from the Rwanda Tribunal to Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and East Timor – and current head of the UN-mandated International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) dealing with crimes under International Law in Syria since March 2011.

Episode 2: Trudy Huskamp Peterson – The Challenge Of Preserving Transitional Archives

Dagmar Hovestädt speaks with Dr. Trudy Huskamp Peterson, international consultant on archives and human rights. With decades of experience—from the U.S. National Archives to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees—Trudy has worked with archives of truth commissions, international tribunals, and other conflict archives worldwide, including in Guatemala, South Africa, Honduras, Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone.

The Dutch Approach to Civilian Harm Accountability

In the third episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson is joined by Erin Bijl (PAX, Dutch NGO) and Major Steven van de Put (Royal Netherlands Air Force, former student) to explore the Dutch approach to accountability for civilian harm.

River Faughan: The Struggle for Legal Personhood

In this special episode Katie O’Doherty delves into the illegal waste dumping scandal at the Mobuoy dump near the River Faughan in Northern Ireland, a scandal described by Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir as a “sophisticated and deliberate environmental crime of unprecedented scale”. She is joined by James Orr from Friends of the Earth and Dean Blackwood from the River Faughan Anglers and The Environmental Gathering.

Civilian Harm in Yemen

In the second episode of the mini-series on Civilian Harm in Conflict, host Mae Thompson from Ceasefire, the Center for Civilian Rights, explores the issue of reparations for victims of military actions in Yemen.

Innovation in the High Street with Philip Armstrong

In this special episode of QUB LawPod, host Taylor Montgomery interviews Philip Armstrong, a solicitor, founder of Armstrong Solicitors and Chair of the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s Conveyancing and Property Committee.