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Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict: What Participants Say

12 March 2024

David Mooney works in communications and translation at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations in Geneva and tells about programme and what it brings to his career.

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Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict: What Participants Say

19 March 2024

Ivana Kožar Schenck, a diplomat at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, tells about the programme and what it brings to her career.

The Faculty

Gloria Gaggioli

Director of the Geneva Academy and Associate/SNF Professor at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva

Robert Kolb

Professor of Public International Law at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva

Lindsey Cameron

Head of Thematic Legal Advisers, Legal Division, International Committee of the Red Cross

Vincent Chetail

President of the Board and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society, University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law, Queens University

William A. Schabas

Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London

Executive Education

We provide training and short courses for professionals who want to deepen their expertise in a specific issue.

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Career Opportunities

Our objective is to produce graduates who will be leaders in the humanitarian, human rights and transitional justice fields.

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Alumni

The Geneva Academy alumni community is made up of over 700 members who work worldwide in the humanitarian and human rights fields.

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Course Catalogue

Courses cover the law of armed conflict, international human rights law and international criminal law, and also address current issues and challenges.

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Teaching and interacting with students from all over the world and with such diverse backgrounds is an experience unrivalled in its rewards. In fact, my classes have become a place where we share our respective knowledge, my role being that of recalling over and over the role of public international law in the participants’ everyday professional lives, allowing them to strengthen and enhance the impact of their arguments.

Giovanni Distefano

Professor of International Law at the University of Neuchatel