Welcome to MaGPIE, an ERC Consolidator Grant-awarded and UKRI-funded research project to develop a human rights framework relating to the protection and investigation of mass graves. MaGPIE is an innovative five-year project that critically engages with the challenges and complexities posed by mass graves across the world. It brings together a multi-disciplinary team of expert practitioners and academics to conduct world-leading, pioneering research for the benefit of victims, families and affected communities.

 

Mass graves exist across the globe on a shocking scale. They contain evidence that is essential to the realisation of truth, justice and accountability goals at multiple levels: for victims, affected communities, States in transition and the international community. Yet the scale and nature of the problem is not well understood: there are no global records of mass graves, nor is there a universal human rights framework to govern all facets and ramifications of mass graves, thereby resulting in a gap in policy, knowledge and protection.

 

This project urgently responds to this significant gap in the international human rights landscape. It asks, and seeks to answer: how can a comprehensive and universally applicable human rights framework for the protection and investigation of mass graves be achieved?