The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes

Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-79769-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Contemporary Security Studies

This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other post-communist states, and first-hand expertise from directly working on the documentation and prosecution of these crimes. This offers a broader picture of post-Cold War relations and sheds light on the roots and nature of the war and the importance of regional approaches. The chapters also present some possible responses to the crimes committed in the conflict, with a focus on a victims-centered approach to transitional justice.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of international criminal and humanitarian law, security studies, peace and conflict studies, and Eastern European history.

An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 9781003493785. More information about the initiative and links to the Open Access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grzebyk, Patrycja

Uczkiewicz, Dominika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Rocky Road to Justice: Efforts to Document and Prosecute Crimes in Ukraine from a Historical and Legal Perspective  Part 1: The Soviet Legacy and Ruskii Mir  1. War Crimes in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine:The Soviet Legacy and the Wellsprings of Moscow’s Disregard of International Humanitarian Law  2. Historical Soviet and Contemporary Russian Criminal Acts Against Ukrainians Under the UN Genocide Convention of 1948: A Comparative Analysis  3. The Crime of Genocide: Historical Aspects, Political Discussions and Memory Laws in Ukraine  4. In the Span of a Hybrid War: Engaging Post-Truth in Shadowing Russian War Crimes  5. A Nuremberg for Communism?: Unified Germany, International Law, and the Idea of a Tribunal for Stalinist/Soviet Crime  6. Putin’s Youth and the TikTok War: Creating the Militarized Self in Russian Adolescents  Part 2: Crimes in the Ukraine War and Their Documentation  7. Russia’s War Crimes in Ukraine as a Tool of War  8. Digital Evidence in Investigations Concerning Russian Crimes in Ukraine  9. Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Documenting the War: Recording Testimonies of Ukrainian Witnesses After February 24, 2022  10. The Center for Civil Liberties: Chronicler of Crimes Committed After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine  11. Witnesses to the War: The Raphael Lemkin Center for Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine as a Case Study  12. Precedents for Ukraine: Experiences of the UNWCC of Documenting War Crimes  Part 3: Prosecution of Crimes Committed in the War in Ukraine  13. Ensuring Fairness of War Crimes Trials in Ukraine  14. Prosecuting International Crimes in Ukraine: The Role of Ukrainian Domestic Courts  15. Polish Involvement in Prosecuting International Crimes Committed in Ukraine  16. Prosecuting War Crimes in Ukraine: The German Contribution  17. The Ukrainian Struggle for Internationalization of the Problem of Punishment of the Crime of Aggression  18. Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the Global East: The Special Tribunal for Aggression from a Post-Colonial Eastern European Perspective  19. Ukraine and the Investigation of Systemic War Crimes: Learning from the UK's Investigative Failures in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Über Autor(innen)

Patrycja Grzebyk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw and a specialist in public international law. She is the author of Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression (2013) and Human and Non-Human Targets in Armed Conflicts (2022).

Dominika Uczkiewicz is a lawyer, historian, and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Totalitarian Studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. Her recent publications include Polish and German Perspectives on Transitional Justice: World War Two and its Aftermath (2021; co-edited with Wolfgang Form).