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Theo Boutruche
| Humanitarian Law & Policy:
Children in Armed Conflict, Civilian Direct Participation in Hostilities, Classification of Conflicts, Conduct of Hostilities, Enforcement, Gender and Protection, Human Rights in Armed Conflict, Humanitarian Law in Practice, Humanitarian Principles, Implementation, Integrated Missions and Peacekeeping, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Monitoring and Reporting of Violations, Non-State Armed Groups, Occupation Law, Protected Persons, Protection of Civilians, Public International Law, Transitional Justice |
Théo Boutruche holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and from the Aix-Marseille Faculty of Law (France). He has extensive field and legal research experience in Human Rights and IHL. Before joining REDRESS as Post-Conflict Legal Adviser he was the Amnesty International Researcher on the Democratic Republic of Congo. He worked previously as an Associate Human Rights Officer within the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He was also the IHL/Human Rights Expert of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia. As a consultant in international human rights and humanitarian law he conducted research, fact-finding work and training for various organisations, including field research in the occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Iraq, Georgia, DRC, Uganda and Kenya. He published several articles in law reviews and contributions to books on international law related issues. His Ph.D. thesis on “The Prohibition of Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering in International Humanitarian Law” was awarded the 2009 ICRC Paul Reuter Prize for international humanitarian law.