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Sven Peterke is professor of international and criminal law at the Federal University of Paraíba in João Pessoa (Brazil). He has a Dr. iur. and a NOHA master’s degree in international humanitarian aid from the University of Bochum (Germany), where he also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV).

Before joining João Pessoa (since 2009), Peterke was a visiting professor at the University of Brasília and academic coordinator at the Brazilian Academy of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, where he still occasionally teaches courses on international humanitarian law. He also conducted postgraduate studies at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany) and was a member of the Panel of Experts on Policing and Crowd Management in South Africa.

The author has, among other things, co-edited OUP’s “International Law and Transnational Organized Crime” and, more recently, the first book in the Portuguese language on “The Ukrainian War and International Law”. His research group “Analysis of structures of violence and law” focuses on modern slavery and human trafficking in Brazil. Peterke is also a member of the Committee to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings of the State of Paraíba (Brazil).

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