Applications call for International Humanitarian Law Prize for African Academics 2020.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to announce an International Humanitarian Law Prize for African Academics for the best-published work on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in Africa in 2020.

Background

As part of its mandate to work for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge of IHL and to prepare any development thereof, the ICRC works with academic communities to raise awareness and to encourage research and scholarship on this body of international law.

Submission

Authors may submit work that has been published between 1 September 2019 and 31 December 2020. The published work must be an article in a peer-reviewed journal, a book chapter or a book, in the field of IHL. This includes works accepted for publication and in final proof by December 2020. Submissions must be received, via email to [email protected], by 31 December 2020.

Eligibility

The author(s) must be African nationals currently living or working in Africa. The submission must be in Arabic, English or French.

Prize

Submitted works will be evaluated by a panel of IHL experts and the ICRC will award a 1,000 US dollars prize to the best-published work.

Additional Information

For further information please contact:
The International Committee of the Red Cross, Communication Department,
Nairobi Regional Delegation,
Denis Pritt Road, P.O. Box 73226 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya,
T +254 20 272 3963/ 271 3369,
E-mail: [email protected], www.icrc.org

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