Methodology fundamentals for investigating violations of the laws and customs of war by O. O. Khan, O. V. Manyk

“…This is due to the practical impossibility of eliminating the causes and conditions contributing to war crimes, and taking special forensic measures to prevent, counteract and stop them. …”
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Looting: issue of qualification and differentiation in the context of some criminal offenses against property by Ya. H. Lyzohub

“…It has been noted that the question of the qualification of looting is a question of the need to determine the conformity of the signs of an act actually committed, potentially considered as looting, with the signs that characterize such an act normatively, taking into account the rules and approaches to understanding such a phenomenon as a war crime laid down in legislation. Moreover, cases of actions that resemble looting in appearance, but committed by civilians, as well as representatives of Russian units and persons supported by them from illegal armed formations fighting on the other side, have been differentiated.…”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…It survives in local memory and in fiction by Vietnamese writers.4The great famine was never construed as a war crime by the Allies, yet the question of blame, alongside agency or lack of it, was an issue between the French and the Viet Minh in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender and entered into propaganda recriminations. …”
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To Cover or to Hide? The Role of the Media in the Trials of the Nazis and Their Collaborators by Tomas Vaiseta

“….), Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, Osnabrück: fibre Verlag, 2022. …”
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Priority areas of police bodies’ activity in ensuring the citizens’ rights in the conditions of martial law legal regime in Ukraine by O. I. Bezpalova

“…The need to develop effective algorithms for police actions in conditions of active hostilities and in de-occupied territories has been argued, in particular regarding: demining of territories and buildings by investigative-operational groups equipped with mobile forensic laboratories; identification of collaborators and sabotage groups; recording and documenting war crimes depending on their type; investigation of certain types of war crimes; implementation of measures of police custody, taking into account the significant increase in the number of persons who need such measures; inspections of vehicles on highways and roadblocks; searching for missing persons.…”
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"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany by Anne-Marie Scholz

“…In 1963, in the midst of spectacular court cases and “trials” that began to highlight the widespread complicity of Germans in National Socialist war crimes, the theme of “active resistance” to tyranny that Welles’ version of The Trial offered did not fit the picture. …”
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THE NUREMBERG TRIAL AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW: AN APPRAISAL by ANDREW BUYENGUM JACKSON, GAMBO NELSON

“… Prior to the Nuremberg trial, war crimes of international magnitude were tried on the state actors. …”
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“Your Womb is Our Enemy!” by Muauz Gidey Alemu, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe

“… War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide were committed in the war in Tigray.  …”
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Focus : Les archives audiovisuelles de la justice by Martine Sin Blima-Barru

“…Since then, 28 trials have been recorded: crimes committed during the Second World War, crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, crimes of terrorist attacks. …”
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Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps and the Fascination of the Abomination by John AIREY

“…The narrator of this travel book shows himself to be fascinated by what is abominable: disease, war crimes, cruelty and nightmares are the main examples in the text. …”
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The concept of most responsible in international criminal law and its problematic reception in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia by José Manuel Díaz-Soto, Diego Borbón

“…In the context of Colombia's transitional justice process, the definitions of “most responsible” and “determining participants” play a pivotal role in deciding who should face prosecution and sanctions of effective restriction of liberty for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The article argues that the current conceptual ambiguity within the JEP's legal framework risks conflating accomplices with principal offenders, which could undermine the selective justice model designed to focus on high-level perpetrators. …”
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Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…But we need to know whether all the legal requirements that allow the organs of the Court to act are present, and to evaluate the way in which the ICC could become a large or small part of a strategy to combat impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Colombia.…”
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THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: INTERROGATING THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SYRIA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…The United Nations Charter gives responsibility to international community to use appropriate diplomatic and other peaceful measure in accordance with Chapter VI and VIII of the Charter to help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. …”
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Powrót do ruin. O atrakcyjności niemieckiego powojnia by Jakub Gortat

“…The article focuses on the depictions of the German civilian population in selected motion pictures which, at least in theory, do not hold ordinary Germans responsible for war crimes. A look at the German war-torn landscape and its functionality will play an important role in the analysis, as it is against this background that the key plot lines are developed. …”
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The icon of Ukrainian Nazis: on the question of the historical assessment of the «heroes» under the Protection of the Virgin Mary and their modern admirers by A. V. Sushko

“…In addition to the image itself, which became the reason for writing this article, the source for the study is the forensic investigative documentation of the Soviet state security agencies, during and after the end of the Great Patriotic War, interrogating captured employees of the German special services, Ukrainian nationalists and witnesses to their war crimes. The presence of specific common features in the biographies depicted on the icon of Nazi criminals has been established. …”
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De la haine au crime by Charles de Lespinay, Frank Alvarez Pereyre

“…Offenses based upon hatred might refer to criminal actions performed by an individual against another person that is felt to be different, and also to mass actions for which such terms as “genocide”, “crimes against humanity”, and “war crimes” have been coined. Actually one has to clarify both hatred as a behavior - its roots and justifications -, and the very notions of offense and crime. …”
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Implementation of stabilisation measures by the National Police in the context of creating a secure environment in the de-occupied and frontline territories by K. L. Buhaichuk

“…The author analyses the content and procedure for the implementation of the main stabilisation measures: provision of humanitarian services to the population (evacuation, delivery of humanitarian goods, escort of civilian transport, opening and maintenance of the points of invincibility, psychological support); identification of social and security problems in the de-occupied territories, as well as persons in need of assistance; humanitarian demining; exposure of collaborators and accomplices of the occupation regime; investigation of war crimes; searching for persons who went missing as a result of hostilities; identifying places of mass graves and illegal detention of citizens; ensuring the implementation of martial law measures; creating emergency response systems for emergencies and offences; ensuring public order and security, preventive activities, combating crimes and other offences. …”
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The place of the State Bureau of Investigation in the system of state law enforcement agencies of Ukraine by M. M. Makarenko

“…Therefore, the place of the State Bureau of Investigation in the system of state bodies is determined by its legal status as a central executive body, as evidenced by the specifics of its activities, since it was established for the special purpose of preventing and combating crimes committed by special categories of subjects, as well as war crimes, which is consistent with the law enforcement function of the state and has nothing to do with either legislative or judicial activities; as a law enforcement agency in view of the fact that its main and, in fact, the only task is to counteract criminal offences within its competence; as a state body with a special status, as evidenced by its tasks, powers and the fact that it carries out its activities independently and independently of other executive authorities in the organisational and functional aspect.…”
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Transitional justice mechanisms and processes: international experience for restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty and national security by O. V. Cherviakova

“…Among the elements of transitional justice, the author identifies those whose implementation is appropriate and possible before the end of the active phase of the conflict in Ukraine: bringing to individual responsibility, recording, documenting and collecting evidence of crimes allegedly committed on the territory of Ukraine (including war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression), cooperation with the International Criminal Court on international crimes, determining the procedure for bringing the top military and political leadership of the russian federation to justice (tribunal); establishing the circumstances of the conflict and recording them, which is especially important in the context of information and psychological operations and other methods of hybrid warfare used by the Russian Federation. …”
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Civil substantive and procedural legal means of securing reparations for Ukraine by O. G. Bortnik

“…The author identifies the types and role of legal immunities and amnesties as means of reconciliation, their conditions of implementation and application in relation to the effectiveness and availability of reparations for gross human rights violations and war crimes. The forms of reparations that should be guaranteed to victims for the relevant crimes have been investigated. …”
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