Dr. Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in History at Nottingham and his PhD in Political Science from Keele. He founded the British American Security Information Council in Washington DC in 1986, and directed it until 2001 when he became Senior Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall, London. He has acted as consultant and advisor to the UK and US Governments, BBC, CNN, Sky News, Kroll Security International, Oxfam, the Foreign Policy Centre and Greenpeace, and was the independent advisor to the UK Government's Department of Constitutional Affairs on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. His books include ‘America, Hitler and the UN’ (I.B.Tauris, 2011), 'A Case to Answer' (Spokesman Books, 2004) on Tony Blair and Iraq, and 'The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace' (Politico's Publishing, 2004). His presentation will outline his research into the records of the virtually unknown UNWCC, held under restriction in New York.
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression