Ulrich Garms

Ulrich Garms

Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer

Ulrich Garms works for the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He provides advice to requesting States on their counter-terrorism laws and policies, and designs and delivers training on the investigation and prosecution of terrorism cases to investigators, prosecutors and judges, primarily in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has led the development of several UNODC publications on human rights and gender aspects of criminal justice in terrorism cases.

Since 2015, Ulrich has developed, together with UNODC’s experts on violence against children and juvenile justice, UNODC’s technical assistance project on the treatment of children recruited and exploited by terrorist and violent extremist groups. The project advises governments on policies and laws related to children associated with terrorist groups; trains criminal justice, counter-terrorism and child protection officials and civil society actors; engages in advocacy; and has published several manuals to assist governments, civil society and international organizations and to provide a basis for training.

Prior to joining UNODC, Ulrich worked for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (the first international tribunal adjudicating terrorism cases) and the ICTY. He also served as the Registrar of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ulrich Garms holds law degrees from Italy and the United States.