Maartje Weerdesteijn is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology and researcher at the Center for International Criminal Justice. Maartje obtained a PhD from Tilburg University, Department of Criminal Law, a Master in International Crimes and Criminology from VU Amsterdam (Cum Laude), and a Bachelor in European Studies (Cum Laude). She used to work as a lecturer at the History of International Relations Department of Utrecht University and was a visiting scholar with Griffith University Australia at the Griffith Asia Institute in 2014. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with a focus on the role of the individual in mass atrocities. She has, for instance, done extensive research on the decision-making process of dictators in situations of mass atrocities. In addition, she has started to investigate the role emotions play for scholars, teachers and practitioners working in the field of mass atrocities.
dr. Maartje Weerdesteijn, MSc
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology
Assistant Professor, A-LAB
Assistant Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies
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