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The Role of Crowdsourcing in Documentation and Investigation of War Crimes

Mgr. Karel Pešek, University of Defence, Brno, Institute of Intelligence Studies

prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D., Masaryk University, Brno, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Political Science

Abstract

This paper explores the use of crowdsourcing as a specific tool for gathering evidence in conflict settings, in the processes of documenting and investigating war crimes. The authors explain and demonstrate the main contemporary challenges using examples from contemporary conflicts (including the war in Ukraine).

Keywords: crowdsourcing, citizen intelligence, war crimes, crimes against humanity, admissibility, documentation, investigation.


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