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Book review: Hiding in plain sight: the pursuit of war criminals from Nuremberg to the war on terror by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig
No full textHiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremburg to the War on Terror gives a historical account of how states and international courts have attempted to find and capture those suspected of war crimes and ‘crimes against humanity’. Eric Stover, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig present meticulous and legal research that covers the flight of Nazi war criminals, the recent Balkan wars, the Rwandan genocide and the pursuit of suspected terrorists post-9/11. This book will ensure that readers learn exactly who still evades indictment for such crimes and the obstacles that face the international community in the struggle to uphold human rights, writes Esther Adaire
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Graphic ::trauma and meaning in our online lives /
No full textToday, almost anyone can upload and disseminate newsworthy content online, which has radically transformed our information ecosystem. Yet this often leaves us exposed to content produced without ethical or professional guidelines. In Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros examine this dynamic and share best practices for safely navigating our digital world. Drawing on the latest social sciences research, original interviews, and their experiences running the world's first university-based digital investigations lab, Koenig and Lampros provide practical tips for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of being online. In the wake of the global pandemic, they ask: How are people processing graphic news as they spend more time online? What practices can newsrooms, social media companies, and social justice organizations put in place to protect their employees from vicarious trauma and other harms? Timely and urgent, Graphic helps us navigate the unprecedented implications of the digital age while staying engaged with the human struggles of our times
Richard Koenig: See Change: A Memoir
No full textPublished online only at http://lenscratch.com/2022/07/richard-koenig-see-change-a-memoir/In this article, a memoir of sorts, the author outlines “mutations of a medium [fine art photography in the
United States], and one it its disciples, over time”. This covers more than forty years beginning with his
formal study of photography at Indiana University in 1979, through his time at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,
New York, and on to the current time and his latest project, “City as Metaphor.
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Bringing Evidence of War Crimes From Twitter to the Hague
No full textThe internet is increasingly emerging as a source for identification and documentation of war crimes, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has devastatingly proven yet again. But how does an image of a possible war crime go from social media to before a tribunal in a potential war crimes prosecution? On a recent episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Nick Waters, the lead on Justice and Accountability at Bellingcat, about how open-source investigators go about documenting evidence of atrocity. This week on the show, Evelyn and Quinta interviewed Alexa Koenig, the executive director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on using digital evidence for justice and accountability. They talked about how international tribunals have adapted to using new forms of evidence derived from the internet, how social media platforms have helped—and hindered—collection of this kind of evidence, and the work Alexa has done to create a playbook for investigators downloading and collecting material documenting atrocities.Because of the nature of the conversation, this discussion contains some descriptions of violence that might be upsetting for some listeners. </p
Ethical Considerations for Open-Source Investigations into International Crimes
No full textOver the past decade, the field of digital open-source investigations has both expanded and matured. Open source investigations rely on information that anyone can access from the Internet, and have been increasingly deployed by legal investigators, human rights researchers, and journalists. The investigatory methods include Boolean searches; sourcing videos, photographs, and other data from social media; determining locations of events by comparing photos and videos to satellite images; mining the deep web for government records; determining time of day by analyzing shadows in photos; and more. In this essay, I argue that digital open-source investigators can (and should) rely on a three-step process when faced with an investigations-related dilemma: (1) identifying what the law says they can or cannot do according to their professional identity, intended purpose, and relevant jurisdiction; (2) soliciting guidance from their professional code of ethics (if they have one); and (3) weighing their options against the values of safety, accuracy, and dignity. Given space constraints and prior coverage of the first two steps, I focus here on step three. The values of safety, accuracy, and dignity arguably apply to all open-source investigations and investigators, regardless of jurisdiction or professional identity, and their application reflects a relatively novel attempt to help set ethics-based boundaries around investigation-related activities
The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissene Habré. Edited by SharonWeil, Kim ThuySeelinger, and Kerstin BreeCarlson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 pp. $125.00 hardcover
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Documenting Attacks on Health Care Facilities, Case Study: Syria
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Claes Oldenburg : Raw Notes : Documents and Spirits of the Performances : "Stars", "Moveyhouse", "Massage", "The Typewriter" with Annotations by the Author
No full textReproduces Oldenburg's complete unaltered collection of documents (including scripts, notes, instructions, theory) relating to four performances dating from 1963-1968, transcribed from their original form. Includes annotations by the author and examples of the original manuscripts
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No full textThe biotrophic fungus Ustilago maydis causes smut disease in maize with characteristic tumor formation and anthocyanin induction. Here, we show that anthocyanin biosynthesis is induced by the virulence promoting secreted effector protein Tin2. Tin2 protein functions inside plant cells where it interacts with maize protein kinase ZmTTK1. Tin2 masks a ubiquitin-proteasome degradation motif in ZmTTK1, thus stabilizing the active kinase. Active ZmTTK1 controls activation of genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis pathway. Without Tin2, enhanced lignin biosynthesis is observed in infected tissue and vascular bundles show strong lignification. This is presumably limiting access of fungal hyphae to nutrients needed for massive proliferation. Consistent with this assertion, we observe that maize brown midrib mutants affected in lignin biosynthesis are hypersensitive to U. maydis infection. We speculate that Tin2 rewires metabolites into the anthocyanin pathway to lower their availability for other defense responses
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