Journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg delve into the world of international justice. We get experts on to talk about their field and ask them what everybody else forgets to ask.
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Summer Collection: Witness to War Crimes. We went back to this conversation on what's happening on the ground in Gaza, reported by Palestinian journalists risking their lives to document the war. We discuss the documentary with Helene Lam Trong and Yann Olivier. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you
This is episode two of our 2026 Summer Series, chronicling the theme "Witness to War Crimes." This week, Steph and intern Gigi reflect back on Episode 39 Cinema Srebrenica, which hosted Srebrenica Genocide survivors Alma Mustafić and Emir Suljagić. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/
For the first episode in our 2026 Summer Collection - Witness to War Crimes, we look back on our episode about the People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists with prosecutor Almudena Bernabeu. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://ww
Will Kenya be a venue for accountability for alleged crimes in Sudan? We talk to Antonia Mulvey and Owiso Owiso about a new 'first' in Kenya. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to suppo
This week, Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees and PhD candidate Anne Hausknecht join us to ask what deepfakes and AI mean for international courts, and whether judges can still believe the evidence put in front of them. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip
As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. If it's interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us
Last month Janet sent Steph off to round up interesting speakers at the IBA war crimes conference held in The Hague and see what they had to say about the future of international justice. If it's interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmet
AI's new role in military targeting; Jessica Dorsey and Elke Schwarz explain what it means for international humanitarian law. You can find Jessica's doctoral thesis here: https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/keeping-our-humanity-ensuring-the-legitimacy-of-military-targetin/ and Elke's book here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114822/ If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.a
Will middle powers like Canada and the Netherlands show some backbone and defend values of international law in the context of the US/Israel attack on Iran? We discuss this hot-button issue with Mark Kersten and Otto Spijkers. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you
With Jeanne Sulzer we discuss universal jurisdiction in France, against individuals and corporations, such as the Lumbala case and LaFarge case. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us long term? Check out our Patreon, where - for the pric
What are rights and wrongs of putting very old people on trial for atrocity crimes? With Caroline Davidson of Williamette University. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us lo
We discuss the Genocide case at the ICJ brought by Gambia against Myanmar on behalf of the Rohingya. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us long term? Check out our Patreon, w
Why do people plead guilty at an international tribunal? And is it common for women to be war criminals? Olivera Simic, examines former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircut
What do we know now about the illegal transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia and what kind of crime might it be? We chat to Thordis Gylfadottir of the Council of Europe. If you found this interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetric
Juliette McIntyre explains what's happening at the International Court of Justice and what she'll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to su
Experts are saying Israel's action in Gaza are genocide. How do they come to this conclusion? Melanie O'Brien guides us through the elements they consider. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us l
We finish our summer series with two ongoing cases: Lafarge and Lundin Mining. We have updates on these cases at the end of the episode. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us long term? Check out
We explore a new UK group pressurising the government to fulfil its obligations under international law to prevent atrocities. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us long term? Check out our Patre
We discuss sexual crimes against the Rohingya and the genocide case in Argentina with Ishita Kumar of Legal Action Worldwide. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/support-us/ Or want to support us long term? Check out our Patreo
What's happening on the ground in Gaza is being reported by Palestinian journalists. How are they risking their lives to document the war? We discuss and new documentary with Helene Lam Trong and Yann Olivier. Do like, subscribe and leave us a review. Want to find out more? Check out all the background information on our website including hundreds more podcasts on international justice covering all the angles: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/ Or you can sign up to our newsletter: https://www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/newsletters/ Did you like what you heard? Tip us here: https://www.asymme
As Syria’s transitional government grapples with security issues, the long-term challenges of justice and accountability post-Assad remain crucial. While extensive documentation exists of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war, efforts to pursue accountability have faced significant blockages at multiple levels, including attempts to refer the case to the ICC. Since the regime’s fall in December 2024, […]
Janet and Steph sit down with Oona Hathaway to ask if international law as a concept is still relevant and if such a seeming crisis would tear down the idea of the rule of law or if it might sharpen minds and build a new different consensus
Janet and Steph met up with Matevž Pezdirc, who is the head of the Genocide Network Secretariat at Eurojust.
What beckons for the year ahead? Janet approached some old friends and some new ones at the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court and asked them what they expect for the New Year. It was depressing. But, on the other hand, they had some great recommendations and hopes for their reading/watching/listening this coming year: Janet has been watching Black Doves on Netflix; Steph enjoys Narcos on Netflix and on HBO Como Ague Para Chocolate based on the Laura Esquivel novel big in the 90s and set in revolutionary Mexico; Reed Brody is looking forward to Philippe Sands on Pinochet; Micha
We take a look back at our favourite episodes from 2024.
