In new episode of the #JustTalk_World we are speaking about:
🟢Victim-oriented approach in the context of war crimes, committed in armed conflict – what is the experience of its application in other countries?
🟢What evidence is needed to prove Conflict-related Sexual Violence (CRSV) and why the working with victim is key to providing it?
🟢What does the experience of other armed conflicts tell us: how to restore justice for the victims of the CRSV? What exactly is this justice means?

Guest: Martin Hackett, Expert of EU funded Project "Pravo-Justice", International Prosecutor, who worked as Head of the War Crimes Prosecution Unit for the Republic of Kosovo and Senior Trial Counsel for the UN prosecuting terrorist offences within a Middle East context.
Moderator: Eugene Krapyvin, content editor of JustTalk, expert of JustGroup, експерт з кримінальної юстиції.
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📌 Key topics:
0:00 – Intro
02:57 – To what extent is the Ukrainian justice system capable of dealing with large-scale war crimes committed during the Russian-Ukrainian war?
 06:47 – What should be the government’s strategy for working with victims of CRSV: how to involve victims into the investigation?
13:10 – What should be the communication strategy of the pre-trial investigation bodies and the prosecutor’s office regarding victims of CRSV? How to explain to them that the result will not be “tomorrow”, but in a month and years?
16:48 – On the re-traumatization of the victims and ways to avoid it
22:22 – How should an investigator, a prosecutor communicate with a victim? Are they supposed to be psychologists, emotionally involving into events?
26:04 – What evidence of CRSV is key to proving guilty beyond reasonable doubt? Is it really to send the indictment to the court without the conclusion of the forensic medical examination?
32:24 – What evidence remains key in the case when we do not have forensic medical examination report?
36:47 – Is it possible for district court judges to hear war crimes cases? Is there not a threat of their bias here, because there is a war in the country?
41:46 – What does it mean – “justice for victims of the CRSV”? How can justice be restored?
46:56 – Some advices on informing the society about the need to file war crimes claims: how to gather information “from the field” as much as possible?
51:05 – Q&A: What to do if a person at a certain stage of the proceedings refuses to participate in it?
54:36 – Q&A: What to do with those who want to help, but actually do more harm in some places? For example, NGO’s, media and other non-state actors.
57:33 – Q&A: Is there any difference between offline/online victim participation in the courtroom?
01:00:41 – Q&A: How do you feel about the idea of ​​a special war crimes court?
01:04:57 – Q&A: Is “command responsibility” possible in the CRSV, although Ukrainian legislation does not recognize this concept of international criminal law?
01:06:54 – Final remarks.
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Episode in Ukrainian: https://youtu.be/Lezi521XLUc
Written features from guest in Ukrainian: https://justtalk.com.ua/post/seksualne-nasilstvo-povyazane-zi-zbrojnim-konfliktom-inozemnij-dosvid--justtalk-world-epizod-6

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