Atlantic Online IHL Conference

 


The Canadian Red Cross would like to thank you for your interest for this event. Below you will be able to find information about the speakers that participated in this past event, and the video recording above.

International Humanitarian Law is a set of rules seeking to limit the effects of armed conflict for humanitarian reasons. The complexities of contemporary conflicts combined with the overabundance of information and media interest have resulted in a heightened interest in difficult humanitarian issues particularly for students of law, those involved in countries affected by armed conflicts, humanitarian workers or those interested in working for international criminal tribunals. Join us as we examine international armed conflict through the lens of IHL.

The Two panels discussed the latest updates in transitional justice and in conflict-related sexual violence in the context of IHL

Our Speakers were :

Luke Moffett

Luke MoffettDr. Luke Moffett is a Reader at Queen's University Belfast School of Law. He is Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded 'Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies'. He is author of ' Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court' (Routledge 2014) and 'Reparations and War: Finding Balance after Conflict' (OUP 2022). He has advised a number of international courts, governments, policy makers and armed groups on reparations in over a dozen conflict/post-conflict countries.
 



César Rojas

Cesar RojasCésar Rojas is a lawyer from the University of Antioquia in Colombia, LLM from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He currently works as a legal officer at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and as a lecturer for some universities in Colombia.






 

Heather Tasker

Heather Tasker is a PhD Candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Her research interests are in the areas of feminist security and legal studies, transitional justice, and legal pluralism, focusing on gendered violence in post/conflict contexts. Heather’s dissertation research centres on community attitudes toward and engagement with legal, rights-based, and policy approaches to addressing sexual exploitation and abuse committed by peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has also conducted research on senses of harm and wrongdoing for survivors of conflict-related forced marriage, engaged in survey research with community-based justice workers on the needs and priorities of SGBV survivors, and has translated research findings on children born of war into a policy brief for Global Affairs Canada as part of the Conjugal Slavery in War partnership project.


Stephanie Barbour

Stephanie Barbour is an international criminal investigator, analyst, and legal adviser with various experiences in domestic, hybrid, and international criminal justice initiatives, specializing in accountability for serious crimes under international law. Her expertise lies in design and delivery of capacity-building and mentoring programmes for national actors and building successful private criminal investigations, particularly in relation to the collection and analysis of sexual and gender-based crimes. She has served as the Head of the Amnesty International Centre for International Justice in The Hague, where she was the representative and liaison to international justice institutions such as the International Criminal Court. Her work has focused primarily on Rwanda, the Balkans, Nepal, Syria, Iraq, and the Central African Republic, having worked directly in many of these post-conflict states, including serving as a legal advisor for TRIAL in Nepel and the Organization for Security and Cooperation to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She continues to consult, lecture, and publish on a range of international criminal law and human rights topics.


Note: This event took place in both English and French.