Why was the International Criminal Court created and how does it function? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Barry Stevens' documentary Prosecutor (2010).
How do Donald Trump's recent threats compare to rhetoric deployed by Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler? In this interview for the Sovereign Canada podcast, Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke speaks about the escalating Trump tariff trade war and her recently published article in The Conversation.
How can we situate Donald Trump’s threats of Canadian annexation in the language of international law and state-to-state relations? An article by Western Academy Visiting Fellow Sabine Nölke on the historical context for Trump’s rhetoric and the necessary 21st-century vocabulary with which to respond and shape the public discourse.
How can we rethink transitional justice as a bottom-up approach? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Christophe Gargot's documentary From Arusha to Arusha (2008).
How can we liberate our theoretical inquiries in ways that confront the global machinations of racialized subjection, expropriation, and immiseration? This workshop by Western Academy Postdoctoral Scholar Ola Osman interrogates global anti-blackness and white supremacy as enduring, foundational forces that choreograph and haunt the genealogy of international relations.
What can fiction tell us about the complexities of transitional justice? This workshop by Western Academy Postdoctoral Scholar Pascal Michelberger examines fictional representations of West German legal endeavours undertaken during the first two decades after the founding of the Federal Republic to address systematic Third Reich atrocities.
