Dr Mark Kersten is a Fellow based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation. His research and work focuses on the effects of judicial interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on conflict, peace, and justice processes; capacity-building and domestic accountability for international crimes; and the nexus between mass atrocities and transnational organized crimes. In 2011, Mark founded the blog Justice in Conflict, which regularly publishes articles on the challenges of pursuing transitional justice in the context of ongoing violent political conflicts. He has taught courses on genocide studies, the politics of international law, diplomacy, and conflict and peace studies at the London School of Economics, SOAS, and the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice. In 2016, Oxford University Press published Mark’s book, Justice in Conflict – The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace. Mark has previously been a Research Associate at the Refugee Law Project in Uganda, and as researcher at Justice Africa and Lawyers for Justice in Libya in London.

Selected Publications:

• Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace. Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Justice After War: The International Criminal Court and post-Gaddafi Libya, in K. J. Fisher and R. Stewart (eds.) Transitional justice and the Arab Spring (pp. 188-208), Routledge, 2015.
• Between justice and politics: the ICC’s intervention in Libya, in C. De Vos, S. Kendall and C. Stahn (eds.) Contested Justice: The Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions (pp. 456-478), Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Peace, justice and politics in Northern Uganda. European Council on Foreign Relations, 2013.