Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

About

Bridget Conley is Research Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) and Associate Research Professor at The Fletcher School Tufts University. Her work focuses on mass atrocities and genocide memory and violence and how museums can engage on human rights issues. She previously worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum leading the Museum's research and projects on contemporary threats of genocide. Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Professor at the Fletcher School Tufts University. He has worked on the Horn of Africa and humanitarian issues since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner focusing on famine and humanitarian crises including the African Union High-Level Panel on Sudan and South Sudan. Catriona Murdoch is a Partner at Global Rights Compliance (GRC) with expertise on the crime of starvation and accountability for atrocity crimes. At GRC she manages the strategy to advance accountability for the crime of starvation. In this role she leads large grant programmes in support of the agenda and provides legal advice to States UN bodies and CSOs to assess the legality and accountability prospects of conflict-induced hunger. Separately in support of GRC's broader conflict work Catriona provides advice on accountability strategies and works with CSOs to investigate and prosecute international crimes. Wayne Jordash QC is Managing Partner of Global Rights Compliance where he advises states and corporations regarding their responsibilities to protect civilians and international law in conflict-affected and high-risk areas. He has worked in all the international courts over the last two decades representing governments military and political leaders and victims. He has represented the Serbia Government at the International Court of Justice the (post revolution) Libyan Government the Ukrainian Government Rohingya and Sri Lankan Tamils at the International Criminal Court and the ex-head of the State Security of Serbia at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.