Re-Imagining Standards of Fairness in Open Source Investigations: A Commentary on Fact-finding in the Tigray Conflict

DISSECT is very pleased to report that members of the team Ruwadzano Patience Makumbe and Edward Kahuthia Murimi have co-authored a blog post which Opinio Juris has published as part of its Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations. Their post problematises the use of digital open source evidence and interrogates theContinue reading “Re-Imagining Standards of Fairness in Open Source Investigations: A Commentary on Fact-finding in the Tigray Conflict”

Applying an Evidentiary Lens to the Conflict in Ethiopia: Issues Arising from Investigative Mandates

By Edward Kahuthia Murimi & Ruwadzano Makumbe Introduction The war in Tigray has unleashed untold suffering for the people in the region. According to the reports of the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) of OHCHR and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (November 2021) and the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE or ‘theContinue reading “Applying an Evidentiary Lens to the Conflict in Ethiopia: Issues Arising from Investigative Mandates”