This week, we don’t bring you a full episode, but we introduce you to our Patreon feed, where every month we do a bonus episode of the War Criminals Book Club. In the club, we review a book or a movie connected to international justice and war crimes. Sometimes it’s a serious one, and sometimes it’s Geneva Conventions in space. Sometimes it’s just the two of us, and other times we get to discuss them with friends of the pod.

The episode we introduce you to today is our July discussion with our friend and fellow trial observer Lucy Gaynor. Lucy is a historian at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. She is currently writing her PhD about the construction of historical narratives in international criminal trials. She introduced us to a proper academic book, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot. But it got us chatting about the creation of narratives in international trials and which perspectives might be left out.

Listening back to this snippet of our episode also got us talking about the recent judgment in the trial for Sudanese Ali Kushayb at the International Criminal Court, and which kind of narrative creation we saw happening there.

If you enjoy this sort of deep dive into a topic, or reviews of books and movies connected to international justice, or you enjoy the rest of our work and want to give us a bit of money, please check out our Patreon page and consider supporting us. All the contributions go to the production of our podcast.