Investigating war crimes in Syria and Iraq vis-à-vis the Assad Regime and Da’esh
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 24/02/2021

Chair: Dr Michael Innes, Director of the Conflict Records Unit

Speaker: Dr William Wiley, Founder and Director of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)

This event is part of the Conflict Records Unit speaker event series with scholars and practitioners in the field of conflict records. 

Dr Wiley will discuss the work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) in relation to ongoing war crimes investigations and prosecutions in Syria.

The CIJA is a non-profit foundation which extends the investigative reach of Western law enforcement, prosecutorial and public security institutions deep into conflict zones. In the Middle East, the 150-person CIJA has been operating vis-à-vis the Assad regime and Da’esh since, respectively, 2011 and 2014. In the process, the CIJA has extracted from Syria over 1,000,000 original pages of Syrian State military and security-intelligence documentation, as well as considerable quantities of Islamic State-generated records. In keeping with the core mission of the CIJA, these and other materials have come to inform myriad ongoing war crimes investigations and prosecutions as well as public security initiatives.

Additional information regarding the CIJA can be found at www.cijaonline.org.