A critical element of the profession-ready curriculum provided by the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law, SPL gives academic, organization, and technical support to three cross-disciplinary student organizations working in security analysis, humanitarian law, and international law.
National Security Student AssociationNSSA is an interdisciplinary graduate student organization dedicated to the critical analysis of terrorism and counterterrorism policy and national and international security issues. |
Syrian Accountability ProjectThe Syrian Accountability Project (SAP) is an internationally recognized cooperative effort between activists, non-governmental organizations, students, and other interested parties to document war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of the Syrian Crisis. Now in its fifth phase, the project aims to produce non-partisan, high quality analysis of open source materials and to catalogue that information relative to applicable bodies of law; including, the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and Syrian Penal Law. |
Impunity WatchImpunity Watch publishes cutting-edge coverage of cases before regional rights bodies, focusing on six core rights areas: 1) the right to life; 2) freedom of thought and belief; 3) freedom of expression; 4) the right to education; 5) the cross-cutting theme of disability rights; and 6) equal protection. The related Journal of Global Rights and Organizations is a biennial academic journal run by Syracuse University College of Law students. |