About the author(s):
Rogier is a researcher at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) and works at the Dutch National Prosecutor’s Office. He holds LL.M-degrees from Utrecht University and the University of Nottingham. Before taking up his current positions, he was an associate legal officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and a legal adviser at the International Humanitarian Law Division of the Netherlands Red Cross.
Rogier is an adjunct-lecturer at the Hague University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches international humanitarian law, and he co-convenes the Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict.
UN experts find ‘serious damage’ by armed extremists to cultural sites in Gao (Mali)
IRIN news: Who are the anti-balaka of CAR?
Chad’s role behind the scenes in the Central African Republic
Chasing ghosts in the Central African Republic
Time to rekindle Timbuktu’s flame
Warlord Kony benefits from chaos in central Africa
In Kony’s Shadow: Stories of LRA survivors
UN: Congo armed groups wielding machetes reportedly execute 70
UN to boost troops in DRC’s troubled Katanga Province
Salamat Omda Warns of Renewed Tribal Violence in Darfur
Sudan and rebels to hold first peace talks in almost a year
Valerie Amos: UN ‘must stop flagrant violation of humanitarian law in Syria’
A selection of the many news items on child soldiers, on the occasion of the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers (which was 12 February):
Don’t Forget Child Soldiers – They Are Still on the Front Line
Kony’s child soldiers: ‘When you kill for the first time, you change’