David Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will provide an update from his perspective on the ongoing war in Ukraine on Tuesday at 2 p.m. via live webinar.

Crane will discuss where the conversation’s regarding justice for Ukraine are currently, challenges and opportunities, and how the international community sees moving forward with justice mechanisms.

Crane was the founding chief prosecutor of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone, the world’s first hybrid international war crimes tribunal, which successfully prosecuted those who bore the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity in West Africa. This included the first sitting African head of state in history, President Charles Taylor.

Crane served 30 years in the US federal government prior to his selection by Kofi Annan to be the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court, the first American since Justice Robert H. Jackson. A member of the Senior Executive Service of the United States, he retired from federal service as the Director of the Office of Intelligence Review in the Department of Defense where he oversaw on behalf of the Secretary of Defense and the Intelligence Committees of the US Congress, 80% of the US Intelligence Community organizations.

Since leaving West Africa, Crane has been a leading force in seeking justice for the people of Syria through the Syrian Accountability Project and assisting in the creation of the International, Impartial, and Independent Mechanism for the Republic of Syria. The Syrian Accountability Project is part of the Global Accountability Network (which he founded) that also houses the Yemeni Accountability Project and the Venezuelan Accountability Project, as well as the Uyghur and Ukrainian Accountability Projects.

He is now assisting the international community in the creation of a Special Tribunal for Ukraine on the Crime of Aggression. For these efforts President Vladimir Putin has placed sanctions on him and banned him from travel to the Russian Federation. He is one of twenty-five persons that Putin has personally sanctioned as an enemy of the state.

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