TIME AND DATE

May 24, 2022 from 9 AM to 10:30 AM Eastern on Zoom. This event is open to the public.

LOCATION

Online via Zoom. Register in advance for this meeting:

https://unu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nwnNhWp0Sjmd6gL-Chr59A

ABOUT THE EVENT

PILAC Founding Director and HLS Professor of Practice Naz K. Modirzadeh has been invited to speak at a webinar hosted by The United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, the International Review of the Red Cross and the International Peace Institute. The event is titled “United Nations Security Council Sanctions, International Humanitarian Law, and Humanitarian Action: Contrast and Convergence”:

This discussion will draw on several recent publications and projects, including the International Review of the Red Cross’s double edition on “Counterterrorism, Sanctions and War,” the United Nations University’s project on “UN Sanctions and Humanitarian Action,” and the International Peace Institute’s policy paper on “Carving Out Space for Humanitarian Action in the UN Security Council’s Counterterrorism Resolutions and Related Sanctions.” All of these have called for confronting the continued challenges posed by Security Council sanctions to humanitarian organizations and offered solutions to address them.

This virtual discussion will provide the opportunity to reflect on the ways the Security Council has approached humanitarian action within both the ISIL/al-Qaida sanctions regime and conflict-related sanctions regimes.

Speakers

  • Naz Modirzadeh, Director, Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC)

  • Thomas Biersteker, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Geneva Graduate Institute

  • Sophie Huvé, former Legal Expert on the Sanctions and International Humanitarian Law Project, United Nations University

  • Agathe Sarfati, Senior Policy Analyst, International Peace Institute (IPI)

  • Lia van Broekhoven, Executive Director, Human Security Collective

For further information, please find the agenda and concept note here.

Image credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías