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The 88 students enrolled in our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (LLM) and MAS in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law (MTJ) started their respective programmes last week.
While most students managed to come to Geneva and attended the orientation week, we will maintain our system of hybrid teaching – with courses taught simultaneously in-class and online – to ensure that all our students can follow them.
‘New COVID-19 regulations issued by the Swiss authorities demand that students present a valid COVID Certificate to attend classes in person. While our priority is to have all our students in class, we will maintain this system as long as it is required by the sanitary situation’ explains Dany Diogo, Coordinator of our Masters’ Programmes.
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Our 2021–2022 student body is, as in the previous year, characterized by a wide variety of profiles, backgrounds and countries of origin.
‘This diversity is an added strength to our programme as it brings different perspectives in class and enriches discussions and exchanges’ says Professor Gloria Gaggioli, Director of the Geneva Academy.
The 2021–2022 LLM class has 46 students from 25 countries: Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The 2020–2021 MTJ class has 42 students from 29 countries: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Colombia, Eritrea, France, Gambia, Georgia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The Netherlands, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States and Venezuela.
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14 students from the LLM and 14 from the MTJ received a full or partial scholarship. These are allocated through a highly competitive process based on criteria established by the scholarship donors, and which notably include academic merit, extracurricular achievements and the candidate’s financial needs.
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Several novelties enrich both programmes. The MTJ has a new format with a series of core courses – complemented by weekly tutorials – that cover central theoretical and practical issues in the fields of transitional justice, and a large offer of optional courses on issues like the role of civil society during transitions, memorialization or cultural heritage in post-conflict. Weekly tutorials given by our Teaching Assistants complement the core courses and allow students to revise and discuss concepts and issues address in class and prepare for exams.
Extracurricular activities have also been expanded for the LLM and the MTJ. They notably include a new series on United Nations human rights mechanisms with Geneva-based experts and practitioners, discussions around movies with filmmakers and experts, as well as training on the use of social media.
‘We are also expanding the list of institutions we collaborate with for internships during the second semester in order to respond to an increased demand by our students to have this professionalizing activity’ explains Dany Diogo
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The Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict – a part-time programme designed for professionals – will start on 29 September 2021, both in Geneva and online.
‘Applications for this programme are closed and we expect more than 40 participants with a mixture of online and in-person candidates. The final numbers will be confirmed in the days to come once the admission process is finalized.
Revaz Tkemaladze
As every year and in the framework of the IHL core course given by Professor Marco Sassòli, twenty students of our LLM in IHL and Human Rights pleaded on the 2014 armed conflict in and around Gaza.
Jean-Paul Nizigiyimana tells about his background, the programme and what it will bring to his career.
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This event marks the launch of our LLM alumna Jelena Plamenac’s award-winning book ‘Unravelling Unlawful Confinement in Contemporary Armed Conflicts’ published by Brill.
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This IHL Talk aims at clarifying the relevant frameworks of responsibility for the crimes committed by the Wagner troops.
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This training course will explore the major international and regional instruments for the promotion of human rights, as well as with their implementation and enforcement mechanisms; and provide practical insights into the different UN human rights mechanisms pertinent to advancing environmental issues and protecting environmental human rights defenders.
UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
This training course will explore the origin and evolution of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its functioning in Geneva and will focus on the nature of implementation of the UPR recommendations at the national level.
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This research aims at taking stock of and contributing to a better understanding of the above-mentioned challenges to the principle of universality of human rights while also questioning their validity. It will identify relevant political and legal arguments and develop counter-narratives that could be instrumental to dealing with and/or overcoming the polarization of negotiations processes at the multilateral level.
Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de Chile
This project analysed the role of national human rights systems (NHRSs) in implementing international human rights standards and recommendations.