Beatrice Canossi

Beatrice Canossi

Beatrice Canossi holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy) and an LLM in International Criminal Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway (Ireland). She has completed her legal traineeship in Italy specializing in Criminal Law and passed the Italian State Bar Exam in November 2019. Beatrice is currently a PhD researcher and Irish Research Council Scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights recently completing a 10 months research visit at the ‘Universidad del Rosario’ in Bogotá (Colombia). Her research focuses on the relationship between judicial and extrajudicial bodies in transitional contexts with a specific focus on the Colombian Integrated System for Peace.

Thesis topic: [working title] The use of truth commissions’ evidence in prosecutions: bridging gaps and information sharing between international prosecutions and truth seeking mechanisms

Supervisor: Dr Anita Ferrara

Scholarship / funding awards information: Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship 

Online academic profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8511-8782

Publications:

• Canossi, B. (2022). El caso de Otoniel: sus desafíos y lecciones para el Sistema Integral para la Paz (Policy Brief n.º 6). Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz – CAPAZ accessible at https://usercontent.one/wp/www.instituto-capaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Policy-Brief-Azul-6-2022.-El-caso-de-Otoniel-Beatrice-Canossi.pdf
• Irish Centre for Human Rights, International Conference ‘The Role of Transitional Justice Archives after War and Dictatorship: International Experiences and the case of Colombia’, 26^th May 2022, co-organized with Dr Anita Ferrara. 
• Visiting researcher at ‘Universidad del Rosario’, Bogotá, Colombia [August 2021 – June 2022]