Conceptualizing Ecocide

Conceptualizing Ecocide calls for an approach that cuts across academic disciplines. This project brings together researchers from across the university and stakeholders and organizations beyond the university, whose work touches on any aspect of the problem of ecocide and its legal, ecological, scientific, political, sociocultural, criminological, philosophical, and historical dimensions.

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    Extraterritoriality and Ecocide

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    30 September 2024

    Ecocide often has an transnational or extraterritorial dimension, as it tends to affect multiple states, and to involve actors based in multiple states.
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    Ecocide Interdisciplinarity Series Talks for Justice

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    16 August 2024

    On May 2nd, 2024, the project “Conceptualizing Ecocide” of the Pathways to Sustainability organized its second seminar titled "Ecocide as Semiocide: The Demise of Nature and Its Impact on Meaning" led by Dr. Yogi Hendlin.
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    Prosecuting Ecocide Before the International Criminal Court: Concrete Possibility or Long-Term Aspiration? (Part 2)

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    25 May 2024

    Unless the ICC reconsidered the mental element requirements for the existing crimes, the prosecution of people ‘most responsible’ for environmental harms would be (to put it mildly) an uphill struggle.
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    Prosecuting Ecocide Before the International Criminal Court: Concrete Possibility or Long-Term Aspiration? (Part 1)

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    25 May 2024

    On 16 February 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mr Karim Khan, launched a public consultation to advance accountability for environmental crimes.
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    Understanding Ecological Grief and the Reality of Ecocide

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    18 May 2024

    Ecological grief shows that ecocide is not just an environmental issue but also a psychological one.

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• Events

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    Guided Reading Seminar: Indigenizing Environmental Humanities, Philosophy and Justice

    9 October 2024 13:15 to 13 November 2024 15:30

    These sessions are intended for students with an interest in Indigenous environmentalism and non-Western perspectives on justice and the climate crisis.
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    Workshop: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Sustainability through the Land

    20 November 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00

    Decolonizing and Indigenizing Sustainability through the Land: This workshop will discuss how colonial power dynamics obscure Indigenous theories and practices of sustainability.
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    Lecture: Indigenous Visions of Law and Ecocide

    26 November 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00

    This lecture will center on Indigenous legal orders, justice, and ecocide from Indigenous perspectives. By providing detailed insights into the Navajo peacemaking courts, Dr. Brian Burkhart aims to contrast Indigenous legal orders and ethical principles, such as kinship relationality, with Western legal concepts.

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