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Morten Bergsmo
Associated Senior Researcher
Email: bergsmo@prio.no
Work phone: 47-22547752
Mobile phone: 47-94825919/+31-652671479
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Working experience:

2010 -: Senior Researcher, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

2010 -: Senior Researcher (Associated), PRIO.

2006-2009:  Senior Researcher, PRIO.

2003-05:  Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court.

2002-03:  Senior Legal Adviser and co-ordinator of the process to establish the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

2002:  Consultant-Member Advance Team of the International Criminal Court.

1996-2002:  Expert adviser to the Preparatory Committee for the International Criminal Court, the Rome Diplomatic Conference for the International Criminal Court, and the Preparatory Commission of the International Criminal Court, representing the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in these negotiations; Acting Head of ICTY Delegation to the Rome Conference.

2000: Legal Adviser on special assignment, Office of the General Prosecutor of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.

1994-2002:  Legal Adviser, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

1993-94:  Legal Adviser, United Nations Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780 (1992), seconded by the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

1991-93:  Researcher, Norwegian Human Rights Institute.

Education:

2002-:  Doctor of Philosophy in International Law (Ph.D.), Cambridge University, St. John’s College.

1983-91:  Candidatus Juris, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.

1984:  Iranian studies, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Oriental Philology.

Books and reports
Bergsmo, Morten; Kjetil Helvig, Ilia Utmelidze & Gorana Žagovec, 2009. The Backlog of Core International Crimes Case Files in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Oslo: PRIO.
Bergsmo, Morten & Pablo Kalmanovitz, eds, 2009. Law in Peace Negotiations. Oslo: PRIO.
Bergsmo, Morten, ed., 2009. Criteria for Prioritizing and Selecting Core International Crimes Cases. Oslo: PRIO.
Bergsmo, Morten; Mads Harlem & Nobuo Hayashi, 2007. 'Importing Core International Crimes into National Criminal Law', Forum for International Criminal Justice and Conflict (FICJC) Publication. PRIO.
Articles
Harpviken, Kristian Berg & Morten Bergsmo, 2009. 'Afghanistan og folkeretten II' [Afghanistan and International Humanitarian Law II], VG, 24 June.
Harpviken, Kristian Berg & Morten Bergsmo, 2009. 'Folkeretten og Afghanistan' [International Humanitarian Law and Afghanistan], VG, 29 May.
Bergsmo, Morten, 2009. 'The Theme of Selection and Prioritization Criteria and Why it is Relevant' in Morten Bergsmo, ed., Criteria for Prioritizing and Selecting Core International Crimes Cases. Oslo: PRIO (15–19).
Bergsmo, Morten & Philippa Webb, 2009. 'Some Lessons for the International Criminal Court from the International Judicial Response to the Rwandan Genocide' in Philip Clark & Zachary Kaufman, eds, After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Rwanda and Beyond. Columbia: Columbia University Press and C. Hurst Publishers Ltd. (351–361).
Bergsmo, Morten & William H. Wiley, 2008. 'Human Rights Professionals and the Criminal Investigation and Prosecution of Core International Crimes' in Siri Skåre, Ingvild Burkey & Hege Mørk, eds, Manual on Human Rights Monitoring. Oslo: University of Oslo (pp. 1–28).
Bergsmo, Morten & Jelena Pejic, 2008. 'Article 15: Prosecutor' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. München, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 581–593).
Bergsmo, Morten & Jelena Pejic, 2008. 'Article 16: Deferral of Investigation or Prosecution' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. München, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 595–604).
Bergsmo, Morten & Frederik Harhoff, 2008. 'Article 42: The Office of the Prosecutor' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. München, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 971–979).
Bergsmo, Morten & Pieter Kruger, 2008. 'Article 53: Initiation of an Investigation' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. München, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 1065–1076).
Bergsmo, Morten & Pieter Kruger, 2008. 'Article 54: Duties and Powers of the Prosecutor with respect to investigations' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Munchen, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 1077–1087).
Bergsmo, Morten & Otto Triffterer, 2008. 'Preamble' in Otto Triffterer, ed., Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. München, Germany and Oxford, UK: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos (pp. 1–14).
Bergsmo, Morten & Morten Bergsmo, 2008. 'Tematisk etterforskning og straffeforfølging av seksualisert vold i konflikt: er det en uproblematisk praksis?' in Hege Skjeie, Inger Skjelsbæk & Torunn L. Tryggestad, eds, Kjønn, krig og konflikt. Oslo, Norway: Pax (pp. 79 – 91).
Webb, Philippa & Morten Bergsmo, 2008. 'International Criminal Courts and Tribunals, Complementarity and Jurisdiction' in Rudolf Bernhardt, ed., The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Online Edition: Oxford University Press.
Bergsmo, Morten & Philippa Webb, 2007. 'Innovations at the International Criminal Court: Bringing New Technologies into the Investigation and Prosecution of Core International Crimes' in H. Radtke, D. Rössner, T. Schiller & W. Form, eds, Historische Dimensionen von Krigsverbrecherprozessen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nomos: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (pp. 205–212).
Other
Bergsmo, Morten, 2009. Review of Edward Granville Browne, ed., 'Letters from Tabriz: The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constotutional Movement' in Journal of Peace Research 46(3): 453.
Bergsmo, Morten, 2008. Review of Dominic Parviz Brookshaw & Seena B. Fazel, eds, 'The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies' in Journal of Peace Research 45(6): 851.
Bergsmo, Morten, 2008. Review of Jubin Goodarzi, ed., 'Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East' in Journal of Peace Research 45(2): 303–4.
Bergsmo, Morten, 2008. Review of Kingsley Moghalu, ed., 'Rwanda's Genocide: The Policitcs of Global Justice' in Journal of Peace Research 45(1): 124.