Professor Milena Sterio participated in a meeting of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Expert Working Group on Accountability in an Era of Strategic Rivalry on May 29. This Expert Working Group (members are invited based on their expertise) studies the impact of strategic political rivalries on norms and institutions of accountability for the commission of atrocity crimes, with the goal of generating recommendations to strengthen global commitment to these norms.

Professor Sterio also participated as an expert in a training on negotiation, mediation, and international law principles for a cohort of Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomats on May 29. The training session focused on procedural issues regarding negotiation and mediation, as well as on relevant substantive issues such as self-determination, power-sharing, federalism, and transitional justice.