Scheve machtsverhoudingen en justice ­mismatches: De rol van ngo’s in online-openbronnenonderzoek van oorlogsmisdrijven

The past decade has seen the rise of online open-source investigations to collect and verify information on war crimes. Characterising this development is the role that non-state actors have played in innovating open-source methods, distributing knowledge, and collaborating with law enforcement agencies. Although this contribution is widely welcomed, questions can be asked about the implications of this development for power dynamics in, and equal access to the open-source field and potential justice and accountability processes. Based on qualitative research, this contribution introduces the variety of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in online open-source war crime investigations and relates their roles in this space to issues of power-asymmetries, inequality, bias, representation and justice from a cultural-critical criminological perspective.