Roundtable on Prosecuting Ecocide: Can We Fill the Accountability Gap for Environmental Harm?
Jan 19, 2022
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Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association
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In the fifth Practitioner-Scholar Roundtable hosted by the ActInCourts Network (UBC), The Toxic Crimes Project at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (University of Helsinki), and the Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association we will discuss the potential of prosecuting ecocide and the associated risks.
Since the inception of the idea to define and criminalize environmental harm in the 1970s, today there is a renewed momentum and support to address accountability for environmental harm. In June 2021, an Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide ('Panel'), convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, proposed a new definition of ecocide as an international crime. Having received both positive and critical responses, this renewed effort might initiate a process to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with Ecocide becoming the Fifth International Crime. The virtual panel will discuss the challenges of defining and prosecuting ecocide, how to fight against impunity of environmental crimes in practice, and the limitations of the proposed definition.
Join Rachel Killean (Senior Lecturer in the Queen's University Belfast School of Law), Richard Rogers (Global Diligence and a Deputy Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide), Alex Whiting (Deputy Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office in The Hague, Visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, Member of the Expert Panel for the legal definition of Ecocide), and Maud Sarliève (Human Rights and International Criminal Lawyer) for a discussion with Stavros Pantazopoulos (Toxic Crimes Project of the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki and a Co-Chair of the Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association) and Lisa Sundstrom (Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia).
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 9:00-10:00 am Pacific/18:00-19:00 Central European Time/19:00-20:00 EET
The Zoom Link will be sent to all registrants.