War crimes are prosecuted in the International Criminal Court, a standing international tribunal with authority to try the worst perpetrators of the worst crimes – genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, such as targeting civilians and destroying cities and villages.
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Courtney Hillebrecht’s research focuses on human rights and international law. Her most recent book, published in 2021, dealt with backlash against international courts. Hillebrecht is Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, chair of the Political Science Department, and director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. (Updated March 2025.)
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Bedross Der Matossian is prepared to discuss ethnic politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian history, and the history of Armenian Genocide. A professor of modern Middle East history, he holds the Hymen Rosenberg Professorship in Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born and raised in Jerusalem, he is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle East history from Columbia University and has taught Middle East history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago.
Der Matossian is past president of the Society for Armenian Studies. He serves on the Board of Directors of multiple international educational institutions and on the editorial board of multiple journals, the most prominent of which is the flagship journal of the field: International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). He is also the series editor of Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World published by I.B.Tauris and Bloomsbury Press. (Updated March 2025.)