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Episode 5: Marija Ristic On The Power Of Digital Evidence

Dagmar Hovestadt talks to Marija Ristic about the cutting edge of digital evidence in contemporary human rights investigations. Marija is the head of Amnesty International’s Digital Evidence Lab.

Beyond Consent: Rape Law Reform in Academia and the Courtroom

Dr Eithne Dowds, a senior lecturer in law at Queen’s University Belfast, is joined by Professor Julia Quilter from the University of Wollongong, Australia. They discuss Professor Quilter’s research on rape law reform and intoxication evidence in rape trials and compare the legal landscapes in Northern Ireland and Australia.

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.

Episode 1: Babacar Ndaye – Building Digital Archives at the UN

In this opening episode, Dr Julia Viebach speaks with Babacar Ndaye, former Senior Program Officer with the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIL in Iraq (UNITAD).

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.

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