Dr Noelle Higgins has co-authored an article, entitled ‘The Destruction of Cultural Property in Timbuktu: Challenging the ICC War Crime Paradigm’ in Europa Ethnica with Prof Mohamed Badar from the University of Northumbria. The article analyses instances of the destruction of cultural property during the civil war in Mali and assesses them under the contemporary international law framework. It suggests that the current paradigm regarding the prosecution of attacks on cultural property should be categorised as crimes against humanity or acts of genocide, rather than war crimes, when targeted against minority groups and their cultural identity.
Further information on the article is available at: http://www.europaethnica.at/home.
Dr Higgins lectures the international criminal law module and the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples module offered on the Law Department’s postgraduate programmes.