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

Seminar on Externalizing Migration Governance and Its Entanglements with Crime in North Africa, 3/04 Sant'Anna Pisa

Chair Luca Raineri, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Speaker: Luigi Achilli, European University Institute Meeting online: ⋙

AfricaConnect seminars: Chad’s new alliances and old challenges, Pisa 13 Feb

Seminar: Chad’s new alliances and old challenges. An “island of stability” in a volatile neighbourhood? Speakers: Enrica ⋙

Presentazione L’attivismo islamico nel Maghreb, di E. Sigillò, M. Ramaioli. SSSA 15/01

Presentazione del libro L’attivismo islamico nel Maghreb. Politiche e ideologie contemporanee, di Ester Sigillò e Massimo Ramaioli, ⋙

ERIS Emerging Research in International Security

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