Victimological Approaches to International Crimes: Africa

Legal initiatives to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity have considerable shortcomings in dealing with victims of international crimes. Transcending the disciplinary divisions in the study of victims of international crimes is the main focus of this first volume of essays contributing to developing victimological approaches to international crimes. Focusing on the African continent, scholars from different disciplines review the similarities and differences between victims of ordinary crimes and those of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Anne-Marie de Brouwer (PhD, LL.M.) studied Dutch, human rights law and international law at Tilburg University (the Netherlands), La Sapienza (Italy) and the University of Essex (UK). She is currently an Associate Professor in international criminal law at the Department of Criminal Law of Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a research fellow with the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT). Previously, she was an associate legal officer at the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice in The Hague.Her main areas of research and interest include international crimes, international criminal law and procedure, international humanitarian law, victims' rights, victimology, sexual violence and transitional justice.She is the co-founder and chair of the Mukomeze Foundation, which aims to improve the lives of women and girls who survived sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide.Prof. dr. Antony Pemberton is Director of Studies and Full Professor of Victimology at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg. He was Researcher at Research for Policy (2000-2002) and Senior staff member/ Scientific adviser at Victim Support the Netherlands in Utrecht (2002-2007).He studied law at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1994-1999) and obtained his PhD at the Tilburg University (2007-2010) entitled "The cross-over. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of victims of crime".