World War I, the Paris Peace Process and the untold legacy for the international prosecution of war crimes The legacy of the Paris Peace process at the end of World War I is usually portrayed as one of unmitigated failure and...
Read MoreDr Dan Plesch’s research cited in The Guardian once again – The author of a new history on the UN War Crimes Commission, concluded, “Right now, you see a German chancellor and public who are ironically more alive to...
Read MoreThe UNWCC was active in coordinating war crimes prosecutions across Europe and beyond, but much of this history has gone unremembered. This post gathers together research on the UNWCC’s actions across France, the...
Read MoreEd: The charges levelled through the UNWCC led to nearly two thousand trials from among member states. What follows is an analysis of UNWCC cases prosecuted after the end of the war by French courts, conducted by...
Read MoreCISD Director, Dan Plesch and the UNWCC project research team are campaigning for a largely unknown UN archive documenting 10,000 cases against World War II criminals to be made public for the first time in 60 years. Read more...
Read MoreRecently in the CISD office, we’ve been looking through the minutes of the National Offices Conference. This was one of the key events in the history of the UNWCC – a summit bringing together representatives of all...
Read MoreCheck out this op-ed by War Crimes Project Assistant Director Shanti Sattler and former International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia war crimes prosecutor Eliott Behar about the recent election of an all-female...
Read MoreThis is a guest post by Ana-Carolina Sarmento, one of our project volunteers, about her experiences delving into the UNWCC archives. There is one question every historian I have ever met has always asked me. How can one fully...
Read MoreWe’ve recently had requests for a greater range of teaching and presentation material to be put up on our website, which, at present, is fairly heavily focused on old archival documents. While these are useful, sorting...
Read MoreWar Crimes Project Assistant Director Shanti Sattler recently contributed to a Mother Jones article about the US Senate Torture Report. Check out the article to see some of the UNWCC documents that show the United...
Read MoreAs you may have noticed, this website has changed in appearance pretty significantly over the past week or so – as momentum builds with the UNWCC research project, we’re hoping to revamp and significantly expand this...
Read More“United Nations War Crimes Commission Records: Past, Present and Future” Link to the UN website, please click here. Link to the UN webcast, please click here. The United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) was...
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