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Martin Mennecke
Lecturer, Royal Danish Defence College
LL.M. in International Law (University of Edinburgh)
Ph.D. Candidate in International Law

Martin Mennecke is a Ph.D. candidate and a senior researcher with the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the Danish Institute of International Studies. His areas of specialty are international criminal law and genocide education. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. concerning the evolving case law of international criminal tribunals on the crime of genocide. Mennecke teaches courses on international law and genocide at the University of Copenhagen and on comparative genocide studies at teacher training seminars in Northern Europe.

Mennecke is a member of the of the Danish delegation to the Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court, including the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression. He is also a member of the Danish delegation to the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Research and Remembrance. In the latter function, he chairs the Task Force’s Special Subcommittee on the Holocaust and other Genocides. In Denmark, he is member of the Danish Government’s steering group for Auschwitz Day (Denmark’s official day of Holocaust and genocide commemoration).

Select List of Publications

• The Aftermath of Genocide – a Multidisciplinary Textbook, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2007 (in Danish, with Thomas Brudholm)


• The future of commemoration – Auschwitz Day in Denmark, Lindhart & Ringhof, 2004 (in Danish, with Thomas Brudholm)


• www.folkedrab.dk (founder and chief editor for the largest Danish educational website on genocide and crimes against humanity)


• "Punishing Genocidaires: A Deterrent Effect or Not?" In Samuel Totten (Ed.), Genocide: A Critical Bibliographical Review, Volume 6. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2007. Also selected for publication in Human Rights Review, 2007.


• "What Is In a Name? Reflections on Using, Not Using, and Overusing the 'G-Word'." Genocide Studies and Prevention, Volume 2, 2007, 57-72.


• "The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Crime of Genocide" (with Eric Maruksen). In Steven L. B. Jensen (Ed.), Genocide: Cases, Comparisons and Contemporary Debates, 2003, 293-359

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