Open Source Investigation – Advanced

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered to offer two comprehensive open source investigation courses focused on the investigation of violations of international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law. Course participants are trained on the methodology of the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, the first professional standards and guidelines for digital investigations, consistent with the practices of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Both courses highlight the importance of ethics, resiliency, security, and legal compliance.

The “Advanced Open Source Investigation Course” is aimed at investigators and analysts with more open source investigation experience. It offers more technical and specialized sessions (described below).

In this course, you will learn:

How to set up and use a virtual machine
How to effectively search the dark web
How to search and monitor corporate databases
How to conduct geospatial analysis
How to do network and link analysis
How to scrape and analyze large dataset
How to track persons of interest
How to track flights and analyze flight data
How to track vessels and analyze shipping data
How to trace assets and supply chains
How to handle digital evidence in accordance with legal standards and the Berkeley Protocol
How to present evidence using multimedia platforms
How to use open source information to ethically and effectively support sexual and gender based violence investigations

Prerequisites: In order to take this advanced course, participants must have either taken the Foundational HRC/IICI Open Source Investigation Course (or a comparable course) or have prior experience conducting open source investigations and demonstrable skills to the level of the Foundational course.

Like those who have sent emails already, I too feel honoured to have been part of such a valuable training event and gained a wealth of knowledge from all of your expertise in a variety of areas.

Analysis Skills Participant

The best thing being by far the team building experience: work with people I had never seen before and that came from different background, put together our expertise and experiences in a constructive way. Each of us brought something to our team and I believe we all learn about the importance of listening to one another and question our ideas. It was like building a picture to which each one of us contributed with an essential detail.

International Investigator Course Participant

All our staff have … expressed a STRONG appreciation for the course and articulated the relevance for our work. Very good for our team building also.

UNAMA SGBV Course

The past two weeks have been such a wonderful experience. So I am writing to say that it was the most interesting, fruitful and pleasant training I have ever been to. Your management of the challenges of our training and your skills in engaging the participants was outstanding. What really amazed me was, how aware you were of everything that was occurring in the classroom, and how you managed to help each attendee personally and to initiate discussions of the topics everyone was thinking and wondering about

Training of Experts on the Investigation of International Crimes, JRR-Certification Course Participant

I too feel honoured to have been part of such a valuable training event and gained a wealth of knowledge from all of your expertise in a variety of areas

Student of the Analysis skills Course

Course

Open Source Investigation – Advanced

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