The Project Sunflowers invites you to a zoom webinar entitled: “War Crimes Prosecution: Lessons from the former Yugoslavia for Ukraine”.

When: Monday, 22 April, 2024, 6:00 PM CET.

Where: online (Zoom).

Language of the webinar: English with simultaneous translations into Ukrainian.

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81066780577.

The topic will be presented by Dr. Iva Vukušić, who is a historian and a genocide scholar, Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. 

The second speaker will be Dr. Anna Adamska-Gallant, Ph.D., former international judge in Kosovo, head of the Judiciary Component of EU Pravo Justice in Ukraine.

The webinar focuses on the challenges and opportunities of prosecuting war crimes, and on the many difficulties ahead of Ukraine in an effort to provide some justice for survivors. Dr. Vukušić spent years working on accountability in the former Yugoslavia and The Hague, and will use that experience to provide some insights into ways forward for Ukraine. The focus will be on criminal accountability for international crimes at the ICC and within the domestic judiciary, as well as efforts to prosecute the Crime of Aggression.

The meeting will be moderated by Dr. Andriy Kosylo, adjunct professor at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the Warsaw University, Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy, he is a Board Member of the Foundation Sunflowers.

The webinar is a joint event of the Project Sunflowers and the EU Pravo-Justice Project.