More than 14,000 russian war crimes have been documented by the Ukrainian Prosecutor's office as of June 2022. With more than 600 suspects identified and first proceedings already underway, what lessons can history offer us in the search for justice during the most devastating war seen in Europe since the Second World War?
Join us on June 27th for a virtual seminar and discussion on the history and modern relevance of war crime investigations and prosecution with America House Kyiv and Dr. Jeffrey Richter, genocide historian and expert with practical investigative experience in Rwanda, Sierra-Leone and Nazi Germany-related research. During the event, we’ll explore and answer your questions on topics such as:
🔹 What makes a war crime? Definitions and differentiations.
🔹 The Nuremburg Trials: Aims, Results & Impact.
🔹 War crimes in the digital age. Evidence, crowdsourcing, verification.
🔹 Practicalities of wartime justice: resources and trial procedures.
🔹 Guilt & Punishment: what is permitted by international law.
To participate in the virtual seminar, please register by 12 PM Kyiv time (GMT +2) on Monday, June 27.
More about the speaker:
Dr. Jeffrey Richter is Chief Historian at the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) at the U.S. Department of Justice. At HRSP, he supervises the office’s historians in their work locating and developing leads and potential evidence in the investigation and prosecution of war criminals, torturers, and other human rights violators. Prior to becoming Chief Historian in 2013, he was responsible for Rwanda- and Sierra Leone-related research conducted by HRSP and contributed to the achievements of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in denaturalizing persons who had assisted Nazi Germany in the persecution of civilians during the Second World War. In recent years, he was HRSP’s historian on cases that resulted in the removal to Germany in 2021 of Friedrich Berger, who had served as an armed guard over concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme system, and the removal to Germany in 2018 of Jakiw Palij, who assisted with the SS Operation Reinhard staff in its persecution of Jews at the Trawniki Labor and Training Camp. He joined the Justice Department as a Historian in 1998 after receiving a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and an A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University.