• How do you define a war crime?

  • Apr 11 2024
  • Length: 23 mins
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How do you define a war crime?

  • Summary

  • Gideon discusses the history of international humanitarian law since the first world war with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book, Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions. They discuss current efforts to prevent war crimes and hold leaders engaged in conflict to account. Clip: The Fog of War, RadicalMedia and SenArt Films, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, 2003


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    Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner


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