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Core International Crimes Database A new Core International Crimes Database (CICD) is under preparation through the CMN. More information will become available in due course. The following are among the Editors and Fellows who work on parts of the CICD. CICD Editors Kai Ambos CICD Editor March 2010 - Kai Ambos has been Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since May 2003 and Dean of Student Affairs since summer 2008. He is also Member of the Office of Examination (Justizprüfungsamt) of the Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony and freelance consultant on the issues of international criminal law, transitional justice and judicial reform in Latin America to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ-German agency for technical cooperation), the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and other organisations. From 1991 to 2003, he was senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) in charge of the International Criminal Law and Spanish-speaking Latin America Sections. On behalf of Germany, he has participated in the negotiations on the creation of the International Criminal Court and later became a member of the expert working group of the German Federal Ministry of Justice on implementing the Rome Statute. He has also worked extensively in Latin America on human rights, drug-related issues and criminal law reforms. He has written widely on international criminal law and procedure in German, English, Spanish and Portuguese. He is a member of editorial boards of several international criminal journals in Europe and Latin America. His educational background includes: study of law and political science at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany), Oxford (United Kingdom) and Munich (Germany); 1st and 2nd state exams; and "Habilitation" (post-doctoral qualification for a professorship) in criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, comparative law and public international law at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Germany). Morten Bergsmo CICD Editor March 2010 - Morten Bergsmo has worked with international criminal law and criminal justice for atrocities since 1993. He is Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University; Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Researcher, University of Oslo; and Co-ordinator of the ICC Legal Tools Project (2006-). He was formerly Senior Researcher, PRIO (2006-2009); Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway (2007-08); Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-05); Co-ordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-03); Legal Adviser, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2002); and Legal Adviser, UN Commission of Experts for the Former Yugoslavia established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780(1992) (1993-94). He represented the ICTY to the UN negotiation process to establish the ICC (1996-2002). Since 2005, he has worked more closely with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in the area of core international crimes, including in Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Iraq, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. He has published extensively in international criminal law and has had several international consultancies in international criminal justice. He founded and is the Director of the Case Matrix Network. Alexander Heinze CICD Editor March 2010 - Alexander Heinze studied law at the University of Göttingen/Germany and Trinity College, Dublin/Ireland. He finished his law degree in 2008 with a specialisation in European Law. Subsequently, he became research assistant and PhD student at the Department for Foreign and International Criminal Law of the University of Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Kai Ambos), where he has been working as a student research assistant since 2003. His main research areas are international and foreign criminal procedures. Between 2008 and 2010, Alexander Heinze has been giving criminal law tutorials, became a board member of the Institute for Criminal Law and Justice at the University of Göttingen and external reviewer of the Göttingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL). Since April 2010, Alexander Heinze is a CICD Fellow and supervisor of the Elements Digest Group. Sangkul Kim CICD Editor 29 Sep 2021 http://www.casematrixnetwork.org/case-m/cicd/ Page 1 of 7 March 2010 - Sangkul Kim completed his LL.B. at Korea University in Seoul before working in legal departments for multinational corporations for four years. He then obtained a LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., majoring in international criminal law. Until 2009, he worked as Associate Legal Advisor in the Legal Advisory Section and the Prosecution Division of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor for four and a half years. He has been involved in Case Matrix training and advisory work in several Asian countries. He is one of the architects behind the 'Means of Proof' digest accessible through the Case Matrix. Christian Ranheim CICD Editor March 2010 - Christian Ranheim is Programme Director of the ICC Legal Tools Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He obtained his law degree from the University of Oslo in 1997 with specialisation in international human rights law and international criminal law. He initially worked for a Norwegian human rights NGO and as a legal aid coordinator for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. In 2001 he co-founded and became the first director of the Judicial System Monitoring Programme in East Timor which observed and analysed the trials before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes. In late 2002 and 2003, Christian worked as head of a district office of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission before joining the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights in late 2003. He initially worked as a legal advisor with the Indonesia Programme with focus on capacity building within the field of international criminal law before entering into his current position with the ICC Legal Tools Programme. He has lectured extensively on international law in conflict areas and has carried out Case Matrix competence building activities in several countries, working with state and non-governmental actors. Aleksandra Sidorenko CICD Editor April 2010 - Aleksandra Sidorenko holds a law degree from the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), and master's degrees in Information and Communication Technologies Law and in Public International Law (University of Oslo). She has working experience from a commercial law firm "Consultant" as a lawyer and from several development projects in Kyrgyzstan as a research assistant. While studying in Norway, she has done research in legal information retrieval and legal empowerment in international criminal justice. She works as a research assistant at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights of the University of Oslo co-ordinating its contribution to the population of the Core International Crimes Database and developing a research project in the area. Ilia Utmelidze CICD Editor March 2010 - Ilia Utmelidze is a Legal Adviser at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He has previously served as Legal Adviser in the Human Rights Department of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, advising on institution- building in areas such as domestic war crimes prosecution mechanisms (including the development of a national strategy for war crimes prosecution), specialised investigative commissions for Srebrenica and Sarajevo, and the establishment of a single state-level ombudsman institution (2004-). He has also worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Azerbaijan with capacity building of local NGOs in the field of human rights protection and advocacy, and been a consultant on development of human rights education and peace programs within the educational system of Azerbaijan (2001-04). He worked for the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights on a minority policy and law research project in 2000-01. He has been involved in Case Matrix- based activities in the Balkans and Scandinavia. CICD Fellows Nara Baek CICD Junior Fellow June 2011 - September 2013 Nara Baek was born in Gunsan, Republic of Korea. She has studied law at Korea University. She worked as an interpreter in several international conferences and did volunteer work as a translator in the NGO 'World Vision' for a few years. She also wrote a book about studying 'together' for high schoolers. She is currently taking this semester off from her school to prepare for bar exam. Since she has a great interest in the ICC and international law, she is pleased to work on the Means of Proof Digest through the Core International Crimes Database. Dr. Stefanie Bock 29 Sep 2021 http://www.casematrixnetwork.org/case-m/cicd/ Page 2 of 7 CICD Fellow March 2010 - Dr. Stefanie Bock has studied law at the University of Hamburg and holds a PhD in international criminal law from the same University (topic: victims before the International Criminal Court). During her doctorate, she has worked as research assistant for Prof. Dr. Peter Mankowski, University of Hamburg, and as intern at the Registry of the International Criminal Court, Office of Public Council for Victims. From 2008 to 2010, she did
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