Additional Resources

These additional resources may be useful to you for understanding atrocity crimes and international criminal law, public international law, and international humanitarian law.

The purpose of this manual is to provide background on core international crimes and the elements of those crimes, and questions relevant to those crimes for documenters to ask during interviews with victims and witnesses. The four categories of core international crimes are genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.

This powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the key institutions and core elements of international crimes.

This power point provides introduction to International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law.

This powerpoint provides tips for the collection and evaluation of war crimes evidence.

This powerpoint provides an introduction on crimes against humanity.

This powerpoint explains how war crimes differ from crimes against humanity.

This powerpoint includes practical exercises discussed on Day 4 and the definition of the crime of aggression in Ukrainian law.

This powerpoint provides an overview of relevant themes related to individual, state, and command responsibility.

This powerpoint provides tips for the analysis of collected information.

This powerpoint provides an overview of the underlying acts of crimes against humanity.

This powerpoint provides an overview of the crime of aggression under the Rome Statute and its elements.

This presentation gives an overview of the history of genocide and its elements.

Pamphlets on International Law Topics

Below, you can find six pamphlets explaining, in simple terms, what atrocity crimes, international human rights law, international criminal law, public international law, international humanitarian law, and accountability mechanisms are. The pamphlets provide simple definitions for core terms related to these topics and their core elements.