Transitional justice failure? The international responses to Yazidi genocide

On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Sinjar region, resulting in mass killings and enslavement of at least 12,000 Yazidis. The IS crimes against Yazidis and other ethnic minorities were widely recognised as constituting crimes of genocide in accordance with Article 2, 1948 Geneva Genocide Convention and as crimes against humanity and war crimes in line with Article 7(1) and Article 8, Rome Statue. As of March 2025, there have been onl ⋙

yazidi, genocide, international justice, UNITAD, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Islamic State

Research Highlights

SHUT-MED Prin project final conference, 5-6/06, SSSA Pisa

Conference “The Changing Governance of Migration in the Mediterranean and Beyond”, in the framework of the PRIN project ⋙

Workshop Digital Reconfigurations, University of Padova 3-4/06

Digital Reconfigurations. Exploring the interplay between data, infrastructures and social processes, University of Padova, June 3-4, 2025 ⋙

Seminar Wider Mediterranean. Crisis or opportunity? 5/05 Bologna

Wider Mediterranean. Sea of Crisis or Sea of Opportunity? Aula 21 Piazza Scaravilli 2, University of Bologna, 40126 ⋙

ERIS Emerging Research in International Security

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