On Politics and Justice: British Military Justice following War Crimes Allegations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001-present

联合王国在伊拉克（2003-2011年）和阿富汗（2001-2021年）的干预行动引起了许多指控，称英国士兵对当地居民犯下了违反国内法和国际法的暴行。这些指控进入了若干相互重叠的问责论坛，包括军事法庭、国内刑事法庭、国际法庭、民事索赔和两次官方调查。这些事件也引起了公众的极大关注，并引发了关于英国参与这些冲突背后的动机、英国的全球角色以及英国武装部队性质的辩论。这个项目将解开这些指控之后的法律的过程和它们所引发的话语，重点放在三个问题上：1。英国的军事司法在公共和政治领域是如何被理解的？2.什么样的规范、思想、信仰和历史为这些理解提供了依据？3.这些概念是如何在政治话语中被工具化的？该研究将使用访谈，回忆录和媒体报道的解释性定性分析，询问各种行为者理解，经历和影响当代英国军事司法的方式。对澳大利亚和加拿大的事件进行比较研究，将有助于确定英国的事件是独一无二的，还是像一些人认为的那样，是由于法律的和媒体对现代战争的审查越来越多。

The United Kingdom's interventions in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) gave rise to numerous allegations that British soldiers committed acts of brutality against local populations which contravened domestic and international law. These allegations found their way into several overlapping forums of accountability, including courts martial, domestic criminal courts, international courts, civil claims and two official enquiries. They also garnered significant public attention and inflamed debates concerning the motivations behind Britain's involvement in these conflicts, her global role, and the nature of her armed forces. This project will unpack the legal processes which followed these allegations and the discourses which they provoked, focusing on three questions: 1. How has British military justice been understood in public and political realms? 2. What norms, ideas, beliefs and histories inform these understandings? 3. How are these concepts instrumentalised in political discourses? The study will use interpretative qualitative analysis of interviews, memoirs, and media coverage to interrogate the ways that the various actors understood, experienced and influenced contemporary British military justice. A comparative study of events in Australia and Canada will aid in determining whether events in the UK were unique or, as some have suggested, resulted from increased legal and media scrutiny of modern war.