Webinar: Author Dr. Anne Dienelt Presents: "Armed Conflicts and the Environment: Complementing the Laws of Armed Conflict with Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law"

Feb 2, 2023 | EnPAx Law Interest Group, IUCN-WCEL Environmental Security and Conflict Law Specialist Group and Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki
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The webinar will discuss Dr. Anne Dienelt’s book Armed Conflicts and the Environment: Complementing the Laws of Armed Conflict with Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law (Springer 2022). Fields of public international law, mainly the laws of armed conflict, international environmental law, and human rights law, apply simultaneously to questions regarding the environment and war. Such a coexistence challenges the unity of the international legal order, and it also challenges the means of harmonization across fields of public international law. However, eventually, the co-existence of several fields of public international law can result in a refinement of international law and enhanced legal protection. Diversification can also contribute to clarification or normative intensification in areas of parallel application of various fields and multilayered legal protection, demonstrating a counter-option to fragmentation.

Dr. Dienelt’s presentation will revisit the means of harmonization of prima facie norm conflicts in light of the multitude of international agreements across regimes. The methodology deployed in this book, referred to as complementation or complementary application, represents a novel approach by focusing on commonly shared objectives and a unifying ordre public transnational across fields of public international law that allow for a harmonization beyond traditional treaty interpretation.

The presentation is drawn from Dr. Dienelt’s book by the same title, published by Springer in August 2022. Link here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99339-9

Presentation by: Dr. Anne Dienelt, Faculty of Law/Institute for International Affairs, University of Hamburg, Germany

Moderator: Dr. Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, Chair of the Law Interest Group, Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Discussants:

• Dr. Dieter Fleck, former Director International Agreements & Policy, German Ministry of Defence, Honorary President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War; and
• Professor Karen Hulme (University of Essex, UK), Chair of the IUCN WCEL Specialist Group on Environmental Security and Conflict Law

When: Thursday, 2nd February 2023 from 17.00-18.00 CET

Where: Online. 

Everyone is welcome to attend. Register in advance for this meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuGpqTMiEtYQ70QzIM2V4MsO7FYHY5Nt

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