War crimes

On May 3-4th 2017, Academy of Justice con-ducted training on the topic of War Crimes.

Purpose of this training was that through presen-tation of best practices, discussions and elabora-tion of cases, to increase and extend the partici-pant’s professional knowledge and capacities in matters related to investigation and trial of war crime cases.

The training elaborated on issues related to in-vestigation and trial of war crime cases, the com-manding criminal liability in the war crime cas-es, as well as investigation and obtaining of evi-dence on war crimes.

It was also discussed about issues pertaining to investigation of war crimes according to the in-ternational criminal law, liability in the interna-tional criminal legislation, obstacles and chal-lenges in the investigation stage and in the stage of evidence collection, and trial of these crimes.

During the training participants discussed on cases from the court case law, focusing on utili-zation of evidence, their definition according to categories, selection of targets, building cases and use of witnesses.

The training was provided ion form of interac-tive discussions, where the participants could present their challenges and difficulties they face in practice during investigation and trial of war crime cases.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges, prose-cutors of basic instance and investigation police officials from the Kosovo Police.

This training was delivered with the support of international experts, EULEX prosecutors who were engaged as trainers.