The International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia
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Join us for a webinar on the International Criminal Court and its role vis-à-vis the situations in Ukraine and Georgia. During the webinar, our Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aloka Wanigasuriya will reflect on the findings from their PhD thesis titled ‘The Impact Conundrum: The International Criminal Court and the Impact of its Interventions in Georgia and Ukraine’, which was successfully defended in May 2022. The webinar will also focus on the ICC’s continued impact in the two countries and how these two situations may have an impact on the Court and the larger international criminal justice project.
Aloka will be joined in conversation by Dr. Mark Kersten who is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia, Canada), a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation, and a senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. The webinar will be chaired by Dr. Amy Maguire who is a founding co-Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Newcastle and an Associate Professor at Newcastle Law School.
There will be an opportunity for Q&A following the discussion.
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The panelists:
Dr. Aloka Wanigasuriya: Aloka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle (Australia) and a current visiting researcher at the Center for European and Comparative Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Aloka's current research focuses on accountability avenues for alleged atrocity crimes committed during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Aloka's former PhD project investigated the impact of the International Criminal Court’s interventions in Georgia and Ukraine. Aloka has published widely on issues related to international criminal law and public international law. Their research interests lie within the fields of international criminal justice and public international law.
Dr. Mark Kersten: Mark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), in British Columbia. Mark is also a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation and a senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Mark has previously been Wayamo’s Deputy Director and Director of Research, as well as a Research Associate at the Refugee Law Project in Uganda and as a researcher at Justice Africa in London.
Mark holds a PhD and MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics (2014 and 2010, respectively) and a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Guelph (2007). He also has a law degree from McGill University (2022). In 2011, Dr. Kersten founded the blog Justice in Conflict, which regularly publishes articles on the challenges of pursuing transitional justice in the context of ongoing violent political conflicts. In addition to his teaching on Canadian legal systems, international law, human rights and justice, Mark has taught courses on genocide studies, the politics of international law, transitional justice, diplomacy, and conflict and peace studies at the London School of Economics, SOAS, and University of Toronto. In 2016, Oxford University Press published Mark’s book, Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace. Mark’s research has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as in media publications such as The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, the CBC, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.
Dr. Amy Maguire: Dr Amy Maguire is an Associate Professor in international law and human rights and Deputy Head of School (Research Training) at the University of Newcastle Law School. She is also the founding co-Director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice. She is an active commentator on international legal and human rights issues. Amy is the top-ranked author in international law and human rights for The Conversation, with over 860,000 readers of her 69 articles. Associate Professor Maguire's fields of research are public international law and human rights, with particular focus on human rights institutions, self-determination, Indigenous rights, climate change, refugees and asylum seekers, and the death penalty.
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