Genocide in Gaza

Detailed reports concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. 

Last updated on 6 January 2025.

Reports

March 2024
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese
Anatomy of a Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese. Report.

May 2024
University Network for Human Rights
Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel's Military Actions since October 7, 2023. Report.

November 2024
UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Israel's warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war. Report.

December 2024
Amnesty International
Investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Report.

December 2024
Médecins Sans Frontières
Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel's campaign of total destruction. Report

December 2024
Human Rights Watch
Israel's Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza. Report.

December 2024
Lee Mordechai, Historian and Israeli citizen
Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War (Version 6.5.5). Report. 

Ongoing Cases

International Court of Justice
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel). Details.

January 2024
Center for Constitutional Rights' (CCR)
Defense for Children International-Palestine et al v. Biden et al. Detail

Amnesty International Report December 2024

Bonfires for Peace? What Northern Ireland can learn from Sierra Leone

Following my recent trip to Sierra Leone I published an article in the Derry Journal entitled "Bonfires for Peace? What Northern Ireland can learn from Sierra Leone". The article explores lessons from Sierra Leone for development and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.

• Read the article on Medium.

• Read the article in the Derry Journal.

Bonfire Ceremony in Sierra Leone, photo by Libby Hoffman

 

Response to Draft Programme for Government

Myself and Eliz McArdle from Ulster University and on behalf of the Peace Summit Partnership submitted a responses to the Draft Programme for Government for Northern Ireland 2024. Our response focused on contemporary peacebuilding issues for young people in Northern Ireland. It can be downloaded here.

The response was launched with the Peace Summit Partnership response at Stormont on 4 November 2024.

Beyond Intragroup Betrayal: New Article

Continuing our work on the issue of betrayal in peacebuilding Wilhem Verwoerd, Alistair Little and Brandon Hamber have published a new article.

The article was published in the Peacebuilding journal entitled "Beyond intragroup betrayal during intergroup relational peacebuilding". 

You can download the article here, open access.

This article addresses a neglected human cost of relational peacebuilding, identified in an earlier article on ‘peace as betrayal’. The focus here is how relational peacebuilders can respond to painful accusations of betrayal by family-type group members evoked by working with the ‘other side’. Continuing to draw on the reflections of experienced peace practitioners from South Africa, the Israel-Palestine region and the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, a contrasting distinction is made between two routes: a ‘clarification’ route that explains why working with ‘them’ is not a betrayal of ‘us’ vs a ‘counter-critique’ response that attempts to turn the traitor tables on the accusers. An evaluative discussion of the counter-critique route explores the pitfalls of political abuse, avoidance of shared responsibility and underestimating ‘thin’ relations (Margalit), as well as the complementary potential of the clarification and the counter-critique routes beyond peace as betrayal.

Difficult Conversations

In April 2023, I participated in a Panel Discussion entitled “Difficult Conversations”, discussing textiles as a “language”, drawing on the work of Conflict Textiles. 

The panel included Professor Paul Seawright and Dr Sandra Johnston from Ulster University, as well as poet Dr Paul Collis and Dr Jen Crawford from the University of Canberra. 

The difficult conversations project was co-developed, co-curated and co-produced by a team representing the British Council, the University of Canberra and Ulster University.  

Coming out of the event Roberta Bacic I published.

Hamber, B., & Bacic, R. (2023). Textile Language for Difficult Conversations: Reflecting on the Conflict Textiles Collection. In Ursula K Frederick, Ashley Harrison, Tracy Ireland and Justin Magee (Eds). Difficult Conversations. British Council: London [Download].

Victim Mobilisation: An antidote to denialism, a route to new relationships?

Hamber, B. (2023). “Victim Mobilisation: An antidote to denialism, a route to new relationships?” at the Conference on Intergroup Relations After Violent Conflict: Insights from Research and Practice. The conference was held at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University on 5-6 October 2023.