This Burch Field Research Seminar is a four-week program examining how the international community has attempted to respond to major human rights crimes since World War II.

We’ll spend two weeks in the Hague, in the Netherlands, visiting among other places the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the Anne Frank House, to learn about the architecture of the human rights mechanisms that emerged after World War II to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes and genocide. Then we’ll spend about two weeks in Bosnia and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia, studying in and traveling through a post-conflict society, to learn how it has attempted to manage the aftermath of the terrible violence and war crimes that occurred during the 1990s Bosnian war and the efforts and challenges since then to promote peace and reconciliation and to prevent a recurrence of the violence.

Summer 2026
May 30 - June 27