About
Lieutenant Colonel D. R. (OF-4) after his graduation at Faculty of Law of West-Bohemian University in 2007 worked as a member of Legal Division of the Statutory City of Pardubice. After the basic military training and advanced airborne training in 2009 D. R. joined Czech Armed Forces as a legal advisor of the commander of Airborne Battalion in Chrudim. In 2015 Lt. Colonel D. R. successfully completed initial tests and became a legal advisor of the commander of Czech Special Forces Directorate. During his military career Lt. Colonel D. R. graduated at ROEs and LOAC courses organized by Defence Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS). During the year 2012 Lt. Colonel D. R. was deployed in ISAF operation in Afghanistan as a LEGAD of the Czech Task Force commander.
Antonie Klopper
Visiting fellow from September 2025
Antonie is a second-year doctoral candidate with a special interest in Genocide Prevention. He completed his BCom (Law), LLB (cum laude), LLM (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria. Antonie is also a practicing Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa.
Antonie completed his Master’s Thesis on The Responsibility to Protect and the obligations of states to prevent genocide. Antonie’s doctoral studies also relate to genocide, but with a focus on the obligations of states that flow from the concept of ‘due diligence’ and how it impacts ‘fragile states’