Ecocide law for sustainable transformations

Ecocide means unlawful acts committed with severe damage to the environment. Ecocide law is about the process of including ecocide crime within international law according to the Rome Statutes. This would equate ecocide with genocide and war crimes. During this lunch seminar, a panel discussion will introduce ecocide and the process around ecocide law. We will further discuss opportunities and challenges of this process in relation to law and how it may be used as a leverage for a shifting value about nature.

Participants:

• Peder Karlsson, End Ecocide Sweden, Honorary professor, Aarhus
• Ulf Vannebäck, Associate professor, Dept of Law
• Irina Mancheva, Assistant professor, Dept of Political Science
• Heidi Burdett, Associate professor, Dept of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience
• Erland Mårald, Professor, Dept of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
• Jon Moen, Professor, Dept of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience (Moderator)

A limited number of vegetarian lunches will be available from 11:45. These will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

The seminar is open to researchers, students, and staff.

Organisers: 

• Umeå Transformation Research Initiative - UTRI
• Another Development Foundation