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NSCR, Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving

Prof. Barbora Holá LLM

Research areas

  • International crimes & mass atrocity crimes
  • International criminal justice
  • Domestic prosecutions of international crimes
  • Transitional justice
  • Empirical legal studies
  • Punishment and sentencing
  • Offender rehabilitation

Involved in theme(s)

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2024-now Professor Empirical Legal Studies of International Criminal Justice, VU University Amsterdam
2018-now Member De Jonge Akademie KNAW
2018-now Fellow, Futures Law Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane
2017-now Senior Researcher NSCR
2017-2024 Associate Professor at Criminology Department, VU University Amsterdam
2014 Visiting scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of Berkeley, USA
2013-17 Assistant Professor Master International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology, VU University Amsterdam
2012 PhD dissertation Consistency of International Sentencing
2007 LL.M. degree International and European Law, University of Amsterdam
2006 Juris Doctor degree (summa cum laude), Charles University Prague

Ancillary positions

  • Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Co-director Centre for International Criminal Justice
  • Board member, Public International Law and Policy Group

Publications

2026

B Holá; V Eichelsheim; L Berckmoes; A Richters

Parents, Children, and Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: Intergenerational Echoes of Gacaca Trials

Book Chapter

2024

M Drumbl; B Holá

Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague

Book

2023

B Holá; R Mulgrew; M Munivrana

Forword | Journal of International Criminal Justice

Journal Article

B Holá; M Munivrana

There is Something Special about War Criminals … : Constructing and Assessing the Rehabilitation of War Criminals at the ICTY/IRMCT and in Croatia

Journal Article

B Mayans-Hermida; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Between Impunity and Justice? Exploring Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Colombia’s Special Sanctions (Sanciones Propias) for International Crimes

Journal Article

2022

The Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes

Book

B Mayans-Hermida; B Holá

Punishing Atrocity Crimes in Transitional Contexts: Advancing Discussions on Adequacy of Alternative Criminal Sanctions Using the Case of Colombia

Journal Article

B Holá; H Nyseth Nzitariara; M Weerdesteijn

Introduction

Book Chapter

T J van der Rijst; L Stevens; B Holá

Zwijgen als bewijs in witwaszaken. De rol van het zwijgen van de verdachte in de bewijsconstructie van witwassen

Journal Article

B Holá; T Bouwknegt

‘Jáchymov’s Hell’: Trekking in the Memoryscape of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Forced Labour Camps

Journal Article

M Drumbl; B Holá

Collaboration and Opportunism in Communist Czechoslovakia

Book Chapter

2021

B Mayans-Hermida; B Holá

Balancing ‘the International’ and ‘the Domestic’ Sanctions under the ICC Principle of Complementarity

Journal Article

S Muhammad; B Holá; A Dirkzwager

Reimagining the icc: Exploring Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court

Journal Article

G Chlevickaite; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC

Journal Article

G Chlevickaite; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Factsheet Insider witnesses and international criminal justice: Empirical analysis

Miscellaneous

M Buljubasic; B Holá

Historical Trauma and Radicalisation. How can Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Traumas Contribute to (Group) Radicalisation?

Journal Article

B Holá

(Un)Told Stories of Post-War Prostitution: Challenging Hegemonic Narratives on Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping in Kosovo

Journal Article

G Chlevickaite; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Insider witnesses and international criminal justice: Empirical analysis

Miscellaneous

B Holá; J van Wijk

Remorse in International Criminal Justice - Sentencing, Offender Rehabilitation and Reintegration. A Case Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Book Chapter

B Holá

(Un)Told Stories of Post-War Prostitution: Challenging Hegemonic Narratives on Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping in Kosovo (book review)

Journal Article

B Holá

Výuka kriminologie v Česku: Zpětná vazba ze zahraničí.

Book Chapter

2020

T Bouwknegt; B Holá

Dominic Ongwen: the ICC’s Poster and Problem Child

Miscellaneous

M Drumbl; B Holá

Subterranean Justice in Prague

Miscellaneous

G Chlevickaite; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Judicial Witness Assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC: Is There ‘Standard Practice’ in International Criminal Justice?

Journal Article

M Weerdesteijn; B Holá

“Tool in the R2P toolbox?” Analyzing the Role of the International Criminal Court in the Three Pillars of the Responsibility to Protect

Journal Article

O Simic; B Holá

A War Criminal’s Remorse: The case of Landžo and Plavšić

Journal Article

A Nistor; A Merrylees; B Holá

Spellbound at the ICC: The Intersection of Spirituality and International Criminal Law

Book Chapter

B Holá

Vertical Inconsistency of International Sentencing? The ICTY and Domestic Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Book Chapter

J van Wijk; B Holá

When Justice is Done: The ICTY and the Post-trial Phase

Book Chapter

M Buljubasic; B Holá

Next Generation: Enemies Inherited and the Bosnians Trying to Resist. BIRN Resonant Voices Initiative

Miscellaneous

2019

Holá B.; Bouwknegt T.

Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims?

Journal Article

B Holá; R Mulgrew; J van Wijk

National Prosecutions of Internațional Crimes: Sentencing Practices and (Negotiated) Punishments

Journal Article

L Rueda Guzman; B Holá

Punishment in Transition: A Case Study of the Colombian Peace Agreement with the FARC-EP

Journal Article

A Smeulers; M Weerdesteijn; B Holá

Perpetrators of International Crimes – Theories, Methods and Evidence

Book

B Holá; R Mulgrew; J van Wijk

National Prosecutions of Internațional Crimes: Sentencing Practices and (Negotiated) Punishments

Journal Article

M Buljubasic; B Holá

Perpetrators on trial: Characteristics of war crimes perpetrators tried by courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina & ICTY

Book Chapter

A Smeulers; B Holá; M Weerdesteijn

Perpetrators of International Crimes – Theories Methods and Evidence

Book Chapter

B Holá; T Bouwknegt

Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims?

Book Chapter

B Holá; A Chibashimba

Punishment in Transition: Empirical Comparison of Post-Genocide Sentencing Practices in Rwanda Domestic Courts and at the ICTR

Book Chapter

B Holá

A Curious Case of ICTY Early Release Practices: Commentary on the 2012 Decision on Early Release of Haradin Bala and the 2013 Decision on Sentence Remission of Goran Jelisić

Book Chapter

G Chlevickaite; B Holá; C Bijleveld

Thousands on the Stand – Exploring Trends and Patterns of International Witnesses

Journal Article

2018

B Holá; O Simic

ICTY Celebrities: War Criminals Coming Home

Journal Article

B Holá; J van Wijk; F Constantini; A Korhonnen

Does Remorse Count? ICTY Convicts’ Reflections on Their Crimes in Early Release Decisions

Journal Article

V I Eichelsheim; L H Berckmoes; B Holá; T Rutayisire; A Richters

Before my time? Addressing the intergenerational legacies of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Journal Article

2017

V I Eichelsheim; L H Berckmoes; T Rutayisire; A Richters; B Holá

Intergenerational legacies of the genocide in Rwanda and community based sociotherapy

Technical Report

B Holá

Sentencing at the ICTY: Doing Justice to Complex Realities of International Crimes?

Miscellaneous

M Buljubasic; B Holá

Alternative Legacies? 'Images and Imageries' of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Miscellaneous

J Kelder; J van Wijk; B Holá

Effectiveness of International Criminal Tribunals: Empirical Assessment of Rehabilitation as Sentencing Goal

Journal Article

Berckmoes Lidewyde; Eichelsheim Veroni; Rutayisire Theoneste; Richters Annemiek; Hola Barbora

How Legacies of Genocide Are Transmitted in the Family Environment: A Qualitative Study of Two Generations in Rwanda

Journal Article

Recent contributions by Barbora Holá LLM