Philipp Kastner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4275903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Kastner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Kastner |
| SIGNATURE | KASTNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7149-6862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complex “Events”? Grasping International Crimes During and After the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
This article considers serious violations of international law during and after the second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020), examines avenues to provide accountability and seeks to assess the relevance of an historical contextualization of the alleged perpetration of international crimes. Such considerations are not only important for technical questions of applicable laws and the exercise of jurisdiction, including by national courts and potentially …
The International Prosecutor
International institutions, like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court ( icc ), promote peace, democracy and justice. However, these intergovernmental institutions are typically governed through vertical structures and strict hierarchies, with little to no room for popular control and democratic participation of the wider society. The internal structures of these institutions are also revealing: individual high officials, from S…
A Resilience Approach to Transitional Justice
Transitional justice, which is typically part of a liberal peacebuilding strategy, often seems distant, ineffective or even counter-productive. The concept of resilience, to which transitional justice discourses and scholarship have remained relatively indifferent, appears useful to explore justice initiatives in conflict or post-conflict situations. This article argues that much can be gained from better understanding the relevance of – and sign…
Unsettling international law and peace-making
This article examines the usefulness of an encounter with queer theory to contribute to the peaceful resolution of armed conflicts, to question the traditional frontiers of international law, and to lay the groundwork for envisaging different forms of peace and peace-making. In a field where, arguably, little genuine progress has been made to resolve armed conflicts and to address underlying forms of violence, queer theory can reinforce a plurali…
Glocal Peace Mediators as Norm Translators
International peace mediators operate within a normative universe constituted of interrelated, overlapping and evolving norms. They are constantly involved in the application, creation and adaptation of different norms, whether consciously or unconsciously, explicitly or implicitly. This article interrogates the increasingly complex normative dimensions of peace mediation and, especially, the ways in which peace mediators navigate and translate d…
Teaching International Criminal Law from a Contextual Perspective
After a period of overwhelmingly doctrinal research following the establishment of international criminal justice institutions in the 1990s and early 2000s, international criminal law ( icl ) research has become increasingly self-reflexive and critical. However, the teaching practice of icl seems to have remained focused on a doctrinal analysis of statutes and the jurisprudence of international tribunals. This article discusses a possible way of …
Introduction
Transitional Justice + Cyberjustice = Justice 2
The increased use of information and communication technologies arguably represents important opportunities for the field of transitional justice, notably with respect to the optimization of existing mechanisms and the development of new ones. This article focuses on state-based and typically very formal mechanisms, namely international, internationalized and national criminal tribunals as well as truth and reconciliation commissions. These insti…
Armed Conflicts and Referrals to the International Criminal Court
This article argues that referring situations to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with the expectation of generating immediate political effects on ongoing armed conflicts is conceptually flawed. The rationale behind the referrals of the situations in northern Uganda and Darfur illustrates that the common attribution of this capacity to the ICC and the dominant underlying notion of peace — as negative peace — have nurtured…
A Resilience Approach to Transitional Justice
Transitional justice, which is typically part of a liberal peacebuilding strategy, often seems distant, ineffective or even counter-productive. The concept of resilience, to which transitional justice discourses and scholarship have remained relatively indifferent, appears useful to explore justice initiatives in conflict or post-conflict situations. This article argues that much can be gained from better understanding the relevance of – and sign…
Armed Conflicts and Referrals to the International Criminal Court
This article argues that referring situations to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with the expectation of generating immediate political effects on ongoing armed conflicts is conceptually flawed. The rationale behind the referrals of the situations in northern Uganda and Darfur illustrates that the common attribution of this capacity to the ICC and the dominant underlying notion of peace — as negative peace — have nurtured…
Unsettling international law and peace-making
This article examines the usefulness of an encounter with queer theory to contribute to the peaceful resolution of armed conflicts, to question the traditional frontiers of international law, and to lay the groundwork for envisaging different forms of peace and peace-making. In a field where, arguably, little genuine progress has been made to resolve armed conflicts and to address underlying forms of violence, queer theory can reinforce a plurali…
Glocal Peace Mediators as Norm Translators
International peace mediators operate within a normative universe constituted of interrelated, overlapping and evolving norms. They are constantly involved in the application, creation and adaptation of different norms, whether consciously or unconsciously, explicitly or implicitly. This article interrogates the increasingly complex normative dimensions of peace mediation and, especially, the ways in which peace mediators navigate and translate d…
Armed Conflicts and Referrals to the International Criminal Court
This article argues that referring situations to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with the expectation of generating immediate political effects on ongoing armed conflicts is conceptually flawed. The rationale behind the referrals of the situations in northern Uganda and Darfur illustrates that the common attribution of this capacity to the ICC and the dominant underlying notion of peace — as negative peace — have nurtured…
Transitional Justice + Cyberjustice = Justice 2
The increased use of information and communication technologies arguably represents important opportunities for the field of transitional justice, notably with respect to the optimization of existing mechanisms and the development of new ones. This article focuses on state-based and typically very formal mechanisms, namely international, internationalized and national criminal tribunals as well as truth and reconciliation commissions. These insti…
Introduction
Teaching International Criminal Law from a Contextual Perspective
After a period of overwhelmingly doctrinal research following the establishment of international criminal justice institutions in the 1990s and early 2000s, international criminal law ( icl ) research has become increasingly self-reflexive and critical. However, the teaching practice of icl seems to have remained focused on a doctrinal analysis of statutes and the jurisprudence of international tribunals. This article discusses a possible way of …
A Resilience Approach to Transitional Justice
Transitional justice, which is typically part of a liberal peacebuilding strategy, often seems distant, ineffective or even counter-productive. The concept of resilience, to which transitional justice discourses and scholarship have remained relatively indifferent, appears useful to explore justice initiatives in conflict or post-conflict situations. This article argues that much can be gained from better understanding the relevance of – and sign…
Unsettling international law and peace-making
This article examines the usefulness of an encounter with queer theory to contribute to the peaceful resolution of armed conflicts, to question the traditional frontiers of international law, and to lay the groundwork for envisaging different forms of peace and peace-making. In a field where, arguably, little genuine progress has been made to resolve armed conflicts and to address underlying forms of violence, queer theory can reinforce a plurali…
Glocal Peace Mediators as Norm Translators
International peace mediators operate within a normative universe constituted of interrelated, overlapping and evolving norms. They are constantly involved in the application, creation and adaptation of different norms, whether consciously or unconsciously, explicitly or implicitly. This article interrogates the increasingly complex normative dimensions of peace mediation and, especially, the ways in which peace mediators navigate and translate d…
The International Prosecutor
International institutions, like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court ( icc ), promote peace, democracy and justice. However, these intergovernmental institutions are typically governed through vertical structures and strict hierarchies, with little to no room for popular control and democratic participation of the wider society. The internal structures of these institutions are also revealing: individual high officials, from S…
Complex “Events”? Grasping International Crimes During and After the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
This article considers serious violations of international law during and after the second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020), examines avenues to provide accountability and seeks to assess the relevance of an historical contextualization of the alleged perpetration of international crimes. Such considerations are not only important for technical questions of applicable laws and the exercise of jurisdiction, including by national courts and potentially …
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · International Law and Human Rights (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · International law (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works)