75 years on: The Genocide Convention in International Courts

Description

December 2023 was the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which obligates state parties to prevent and punish the crime of genocide and incitement to genocide.

In this presentation, Dr Melanie O’Brien examines how the Genocide Convention has been used in international courts in those 75 years, focusing on the current International Court of Justice Genocide Convention cases, and what they may mean for the concept of ‘genocide’ in international law.

Speaker: Dr Melanie O'Brien, Visiting Professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, USA, and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).
Chair: Dr Maria Varaki, Lecturer in International Law at the War Studies Department, King's College London.

Period	2 Feb 2024
Held at	King's College London, United Kingdom
Degree of Recognition	International