Dr. Saba Pipia
Dr. Saba Pipia is a legal advisor at the Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre (Israel/Palestine) and a guest lecturer of IHL at the National Defence Academy of Georgia. He earned his PhD in Law from Tbilisi State University. During his doctoral and post-doctoral studies, Saba held research positions at the University of Groningen, the Max Planck Institute for Public International Law, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Ghent University. His teaching and research areas include international humanitarian law, international criminal law, animal law, and environmental law. Saba is a legal expert at the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine. He has published several works both in Georgia and internationally and has received multiple scholarships, including those from the Georgian National Research Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the U.S. Government(Fulbright Program), and the European Commission (Erasmus).