Skip to content

Search

Cookie Policy (EU)

Geneva IHL Lab

September 2024 - Present
Launched in 2024–2025, the Geneva IHL Lab is an ongoing training initiative that gives students a practical, supervised environment to learn how to monitor, document and analyse international humanitarian law (IHL) violations in contemporary armed conflicts.

War WATCH

November 2025 - Present

IHL Expert Pool

January 2022 - Present
Strengthening the capacity of human rights bodies to interpret and apply International Humanitarian Law effectively.

Authoritarianism and Human Rights

January 2025 - Present
Examining how authoritarian strategies reshape civic space, target minority groups, and weaken global human rights responses.

Conflict, Security and the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

March 2023 - December 2024
Exploring the linkages between environmental rights, conflict risk and human rights protection to strengthen early warning, resilience and legal responses.

Digitalization of armed conflicts

November 2025 - Present
Assessing how digitalization, cyber operations, and emerging military technologies are reshaping the conduct of hostilities and the protection of civilians.

The Human Rights System and Prevention

January 2025 - Present
Exploring how more effective human rights analysis, information flows, and early warning tools can contribute to conflict prevention and the protection of populations at risk.

Alain Werner

Attorney and Human Rights Advocate, Director at Civitas Maxima

Thomas Unger

Independent Expert on Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Annyssa Bellal

Senior Researcher, Centre on conflict, development and peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Giulia Pinzauti

Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University

Kevin Jon Heller

Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies, Special Adviser on war crimes for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Andreas Ziegler

Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne

Vanessa Rüegger

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

Etienne Kuster

Senior Adviser for relations with academic circles, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Nico Krisch

Professor of International Law and Head of the International Law Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Maya Hertig Randall

Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Department of Public Law at the University of Geneva

Madeline Garlick

Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Cécile Aptel

Deputy Director, Innocenti Global Office of Research and Foresight, United Nations Children’s Fund

Christian Bovet

President of the Board and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Geneva

Fuad Zarbiyev

Professor, International Law
Faculty Associate, Global Governance Centre
LL.M. Programme Director

Marie-Laure Salles

Director, Geneva Graduate Institute

Audrey Leuba

Rector, University of Geneva