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In-Depth Interviews

Aaron Weah
27 April 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier
Aaron Weah: “Liberians have been reminded that justice is still possible” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Aaron Weah Civil society activist and scholar on transitional justice issues Aaron Weah is a leading expert on transitional justice in Liberia. He is the only Liberian scholar to have attended the [...]
Patricia Tobon Yagari
2 April 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Patricia Tobón Yagarí: “A legacy of Colombia’s TRC will be the active participation of ethnic peoples” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Patricia Tobón Yagarí Commissioner in Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Patricia Tobón Yagarí is one of the 11 commissioners serving on Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commissio [...]
20 October 2020 by Franck Petit
Eric Emeraux: "Terrorism and hate crimes have made international crimes part of our daily lives" JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Éric Émeraux Former head of the French Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity For three years, Colonel Eric Emeraux headed France’s Office to Fight Crimes against Humanity, [...]
29 September 2020 by Lena Bjurström
Syrian trials in Europe: “They give a distorted perception of the crimes perpetrated” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Uğur Üngör Professor at the NIOD Institute for war, holocaust and genocide studies in Amsterdam. Almost a decade after the revolution and the beginning of the civil war in Syria, several countri [...]
21 September 2020 by Marie-Laure Josselin
Marie Wilson: “It is too early to say Canada had great success with the Truth Commission” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Marie Wilson Former Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Canadian government has just put residential schools on the official list of national historic events. F [...]
20 January 2020 by Mustapha K. Darboe and Thierry Cruvellier
Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Essa Faal Legal Counsel of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission resumes its public hearings on January 20. For one [...]
5 November 2019 by Franck Petit
Françoise Mathe: The traps of universal jurisdiction JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Françoise Mathe Criminal lawyer at the Toulouse Bar and co-founder of Lawyers without Borders (ASF) France This Thursday, November 7, a new universal jurisdiction trial opens in Brussels against [...]
11 October 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed [...]
23 July 2019 by Franck Petit
Jean-Pierre Massias: “The Canadian commission is a new model for transitional justice” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Jean-Pierre Massias Professor of public law at the University of Pau and president of the Institut francophone pour la justice et la démocratie Indigenous peoples' access to transitional justice [...]
16 July 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Drumbl: "Law cannot solve the biggest problems we face" SPECIAL WORLD DAY OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE (1/4) JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Drumbl Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University For twenty years, scholar Mark Drum [...]
18 April 2019 by Olfa Belhassine
Sihem Bensedrine: “France and the World Bank should compensate Tunisian victims” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Sihem Bensedrine Head of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) in Tunisia In Tunisia, the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) has just concluded its work with a final report of two thousand page [...]
3 April 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: living in Rwanda with the genocide (somewhat) behind - Part 1 JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author For the first time Rwandans can look at being in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide with the genocide somewhat behind them, says jo [...]
3 April 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Gourevitch: “The aftermath of genocide is much harder to understand and therefore to write about” - Part 2 JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Gourevitch Journalist at The New Yorker and author Journalist and writer Philip Gourevitch has kept going back to Rwanda for 24 years. In this second part of an interview with Justiceinfo [...]
15 March 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Alain Godonou: "We need an international convention to return African art" JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Alain Godonou Director of the Museums Programme at the National Agency for Heritage Promotion and Tourism Development in Benin Founder and first director of the School of African Heritage, Benin [...]
22 February 2019 by Thierry Cruvellier
Andreas Schüller : Why justice on Syria is very dynamic JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Andreas Schüller Director of the International Crimes and Accountability Program at the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) There have been at least 13 trial [...]
11 January 2019 by Benjamin Bibas
Valérie Cabanes: icc should recognize the crime of ecocide JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Valérie Cabanes International lawyer, defender of human rights and nature Lawyer and activist Valérie Cabanes has seen situations on all the world’s continents where people’s fundamental rights [...]
5 December 2018 by Ludovica Iaccino
Phil Clark: The ICC has been used as a weapon against opponents JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Phil Clark Reader in Comparative and International Politics at London’s SOAS University After a multi-year field research in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Australian scholar [...]
27 November 2018 by Thierry Cruvellier
Rithy Panh: living the experience of genocide in body and soul JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Rithy Panh Cambodian film maker and survivor of Khmer Rouge crimes After the conviction of the last two surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity Rithy Panh, who sur [...]
30 October 2018 by Thierry Cruvellier
Mark Freeman: how you can negotiate justice and peace JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Mark Freeman Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) From June 2014 to December 2015, Mark Freeman was one of two independent experts hired by the Colombian governm [...]