Projects
Below is an overview of the main projects Bellica consultants have been involved in.
Research & policy
- United Nations – technical note Gender considerations in the Uniformed Child Protection Focal Point System (ongoing)
- University of Groningen – PhD research Dead body management in armed conflict (ongoing)
- University of Groningen – Historical treatment of the dead in armed conflict (part of PhD research, ongoing)
- UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions – research Protection of the dead (ongoing)
Training & speaking
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands – panelist in UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Preparatory Conference (2019)
- PAX – lecture Protection of civilians training: mission impossible? in PAX POC conference: Protection of Civilian, Shared Goals, Different Visions? (2017)
- NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence – lectures: (1) International legal frameworks; (2) Respecting host nation law and culture, in courses: Preserving Crime Scenes; Crowd and Riot Control in International Conflict; Stability Policing for Leaders; Stability Policing for Planners (2016-2019)
- Finnish Armed Forces International Centre (FINCENT) – lectures: (1) The role of humanitarian assistance in crisis management; (2) Operational modalities, structures and tasks of the civilian component; (3) Protection of civilians in international peackeeping; (4) Legal challenges to the management of dead bodies in armed conflict, in course: Integrated Crisis Management Course for East Africa Standby Forces (2016-2018)
- Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction – lecture: Protection of civilians in practice by UN peacekeeping missions, in seminar (2017)
- International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) – lectures: (1) Armed non-state actors under IHL and IHRL; (2) Principles of humanitarian action; (3) Protection of civilians, in course: Core Professional Course on Humanitarian Law and Policy (2014-2016)
- Carabinieri Officers Academy – lecture: Dead body management in armed conflict, in course: International Humanitarian Law for Carabinieri Officers (2016)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – lecture Réfugiés et personnes déplacés dans les conflits armés, in course: Cours introductif de droit international humanitaire pour professionels de l’humanitaire (2016)
Writing & editing
- UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions – vision report, section D (2021)
- PAX – On Civilian Harm (2021)
- International Peace Institute – UN Peacekeeping Operations and Gendered Threats to the Protection of Civilians (2021)
- Kleio – Violation of war dead in antiquity: a crime? (in Dutch, 2020)
- Human Remains & Violence – book review (2020)
- Global Observatory – The Many Meanings of Protection of Civilians: A Truth Universally Acknowledged? (2019)
- Oxfam Russia conference papers – The language of protection: need for new semantics? (2016)
- Hermeneus – What to do with the dead after battle? A comparison between antiquity and the present (in Dutch, 2016)
- W. Wels, Dead body management in armed conflict: paradoxes in trying to do justice to the dead (2015)
- ITPCM Newsletter – Balancing Law, Legitimacy and Life: Human Protection in Armed Conflict (2009)
- Bohn Stafleu van Loghum – Managing complaints on rights violations in mental health care (in Dutch, 2004)
Evaluations & reviews
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands – evaluation of Mine Action and Cluster Munitions programme 2016-2020 (2019)
- Centre for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) – workshop report Enhancing the Impact of Community Engagement for the Protection of Civilians in South Sudan (2017)
- Oxfam – final evaluation of Protection in Practice programme (2018)
- Danish Demining Group – tender for Mine Action and Cluster Munitions programme (2016)