Academic interests
- Children Born of War (CBOW)
- Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)
- International Criminal Law (ICL)
- Intersections between law and society
Lina Stotz is a Doctoral Researcher on the EuroWARCHILD-project at the Centre for Gender Research (STK). EuroWARCHILD aims to explore the experiences and needs of three generations of children born of war (CBOW) in Europe. In her project Stotz studies the role of international criminal law for CBOW in Europe and beyond.
Background
Stotz is a board member of the Children Born of War Project, was section manager on domestic and sexual violence at Terre des Femmes, policy advisor at the Society for Threatened Peoples and trainee at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. In these capacities, she worked with victims of sexual violence and with children born of war. Her focus has been the Yazidi community, but she has also advocated on these topics in relation to Uganda, Myanmar/Bangladesh (Rohingya), Nigeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Stotz has an LL.M. degree in International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law from the Geneva Academy of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and an LL.B. from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in International and European Law, specialising in International Criminal Law.
She received the first prize in her university’s thesis contest of the year 2017 for her LL.B. thesis on a gender-specific interpretation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in relation to the crime of land grabbing. Stotz has lived and worked in Myanmar, Laos, Germany and The Netherlands.