LAW5433 - Victims, law and mass atrocity

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

• Apply knowledge and understanding of recent developments in international criminal and human rights law with creativity and initiative to further learning in relation to victim's rights, accountability for atrocity, and criminological understandings of human agency in times of political violence with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice;
• Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in international criminal law and human rights law, in particular, with reference to feminist theory, ethnographic method, neuroscience, victimology, and other interdisciplinary perspectives;
• Conduct research into the complex statutory scheme based on knowledge of appropriate research principles and methods concerning the needs, conduct, goals, responsibilities, and ambitions of victims of human rights abuses so as to create new understandings of key developments, likely future directions and current and emerging problems, including the vastly underappreciated reality that, during episodes of massive political violence, victims may come to victimise others.
• Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to the study of victims of human rights abuses.