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War Crimes Reporting Guide

War Crimes Reporting Guide

Reporters’ Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Introduction

By Anne Koch | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 12, 2023

In the introduction to GIJN’s War Crimes Reporting Guide, GIJN Program Director Anne Koch discusses international law relating to conflict and the role of investigative reporting in uncovering war crimes.

War Crimes Reporting Guide
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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Tracing War Criminals

By Thu Thu Aung | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 11, 2023

In this excerpt from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, Burmese journalist Thu Thu Aung discusses methods for tracking down suspected war criminals.

War Crimes Reporting Guide
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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Physical and Digital Security

By Matt Hansen | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 11, 2023

In this chapter of GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, security expert Matt Hansen discusses best practices for both physical and digital security for investigative journalists covering possible war crimes.

War Crimes Reporting Guide
MIDAN SHAR, AFGHANISTAN-- 24 Nov 2001. Ron Haviv, celebrated war photographer of the VII agency, under sniper fire from rebels of the Northern Alliance, during the surrender by the Taliban of the village of Midan Shar. The stand-off at Midan Shar--30 kms southwest of Kabul, on the strategic Kandahar road--lasted one week, with 2,000 Taliban finally surrendering. Image: Courtesy of Scott Peterson

Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Documenting with Photo and Video

By Ron Haviv, Photography by Scott Peterson, Ron Haviv | September 11, 2023

In this chapter from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, world-renowned war photographer Ron Haviv discusses best practices for using photo and video to cover atrocities and possible war crimes.

War Crimes Reporting Guide

Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Preface by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nadia Murad

By Nadia Murad | September 11, 2023

In this preface to GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad discusses her own personal experience as a Yazidi survivor of conflict-related sexual violence and the value of investigative journalism as a tool that can help uncover atrocities and push for accountability.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Environmental and Property Damage

By Wim Zwijnenburg | Photography by Christopher Morris, Ed Kashi | September 8, 2023

In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, humanitarian disarmament researcher Wim Zwijnenburg offers best practices for reporting on environmental and property damage during conflicts.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Self-Care for Covering Traumatic Events

By Gavin Rees | September 7, 2023

In this excerpt from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, the Dart Center’s Gavin Rees discusses best practices for self-care and processing coverage of traumatic events.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Interviewing Victims and Survivors

By Gavin Rees | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 6, 2023

In the first section of Chapter 13 of the GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, the Dart Center’s Gavin Rees discusses best practices for interviewing victims and survivors of war crimes and armed conflict.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Command Structures

By Tony Wilson | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 5, 2023

This chapter of GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, written by military expert Tony Wilson, offers an overview of command structures and their roles in holding leaders accountable for war crimes.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Finding the Missing

By Sarah El Deeb | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 4, 2023

In this chapter excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, investigative reporter Sarah El Deeb discusses techniques for tracking the missing and those subject to forced disappearances.

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