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13:38 // Lemkin’s spark: from philology to “genocide”
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Whither War - Whither the Law of War
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- 1 00:00 // Host intro: Sir Geoffrey Nice & tonight’s topic
- 2 04:30 // Setting the agenda — law, war & a “miscellany”
- 3 06:14 // Birth of IHL: Red Cross, Geneva & Hague Conventions
- 4 07:51 // The Armenian genocide: what happened & why it matters
- 5 10:14 // Morgenthau vs. Lansing: sovereignty over lives
- 6 12:10 // How “sovereignty” enabled inaction in WWI
- 7 13:20 // Tehlirian’s Berlin trial — justice & its ripple effect
- 8 13:38 // Lemkin’s spark: from philology to “genocide”
- 9 14:52 // Coining “genocide” & the Nuremberg gap
- 10 16:21 // Justice Jackson’s stance: atrocities tied to aggressive war
- 11 19:59 // From Nuremberg to the Genocide Convention: a duty to act
- 12 20:44 // Ad hoc tribunals to the ICC 2002
- 13 22:11 // Big powers & the ICC: Trump’s 2018 rejection
- 14 26:03 // What the Genocide Convention actually requires prevent & punish now
- 15 29:06 // No judge needed first — why delay kills
- 16 30:20 // Rwanda 1994: avoiding the “G-word”
- 17 33:06 // UK export case & the “no intent found” problem
- 18 36:00 // Reasons for hope: convictions & legal innovations Lubanga, Ongwen, Myanmar
- 19 38:16 // A missed chance: ICC probe on Israel–Gaza 2014–21
- 20 43:09 // People’s tribunals: Iran Tribunal lessons
- 21 47:19 // China Tribunal → Uyghur Tribunal: findings & one form of genocide
- 22 53:27 // How civil findings drive real-world change
- 23 55:10 // Will humanitarian law endure?
- 24 59:03 // Ben Ferencz & the takeaway: “Never give up”
