As the USA seeks to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court and others openly challenge human rights institutions are war crimes and genocide becoming normalised?
Brutal conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, across the Middle East, and in Sudan punctuate a global slide to authoritarianism that threatens fundamental rights and civil society in every part of the world, where impunity protects the powerful from accountability for war crimes and whole populations lose the basic protections of international law.
Will the post-Second World War framework of international law prove resilient enough to prevent this?
Can it be re-imagined for an age in which societies are transformed by new forms of great power rivalry and dizzying technological change?
On Tuesday 29 September, the AEJ UK and University College London brought together a leading international jurist and a uniquely experienced war reporter to examine this and share their insights.
Veronika Fikfak is co-director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council.
Award-winning journalist and author Fergal Keane has risked his life over four decades bearing witness to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and has described how being a witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda triggered his own PTSD.
This meeting was co-hosted by University College London.
