Report on the deportation of Ukrainian children


On 30 March 2023, 45 #OSCE participating States, following consultation with #Ukraine, invoked the OSCE’s #MoscowMechanism on the issue of "forcible transfer of #children within parts of Ukraine’s territory temporarily controlled or occupied by #Russia and/or their deportation to the Russian Federation". NAILs Cecilie Hellestveit was selected by Ukraine and the invoking states as one of the experts to work on…

Leangkollen Security Conference 2021


At the annual (but digital) Leangkollen Security Conference 2021 organised by The Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Cecilie Hellestveit hosted day 2 on the subject of "Building Resilience to Foreign Influence ". Francis Fukuyama and Thomas Rid gave key note speeches, and Hellestveit interviewed the Norwegian Foreign Minister. The session ended with…

Fact-finding mechanisms


Hellestveit has written a chapter on fact-finding mechanisms under international law in the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace (Elgar) edited by Professor Cecilia Baillet. Hellestveit presented the chapter at a book-launch at the Faculty of Law during Oslo Peace Days.

Synthetic biology and international law in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology


Hellestveit has co-authored a chapter on Synthetic biology and the Biological Weapons Convention in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology  with Filippa Lentzos. The chapter traces recent developments and trends in weaponization of synthetic biology, and assesses whether the categorical ban on biological weapons under international law applies…

Genocide and non-state perpetrators under international law


Hellestveit made a presentation  at an international conference in September 2018 to commemorate The UN Genocide Convention at 70: The Politics of Mass Atrocity Prevention  at a session addressing non-state perpetrators of mass-atrocities.  Hellestveit's paper, entitled  Tribes, Thugs, Terrorists, and the Law: Non-Conventional Armed Violence and the Genocide Convention analyses the particular…