Accountability for Mass Starvation
Testing the Limits of the Law
Edited by Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch, and Wayne Jordash QC
Author Information
Edited by Bridget Conley, Research Director, World Peace Foundation, Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation, Catriona Murdoch, Partner, Global Rights Compliance, and Wayne Jordash QC, Managing Partner, Global Rights Compliance
Bridget Conley is Research Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) and Associate Research Professor at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her work focuses on mass atrocities and genocide, memory and violence, and how museums can engage on human rights issues. She previously worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, leading the Museum's research and projects on contemporary threats of genocide.
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, and Research Professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He has worked on the Horn of Africa and humanitarian issues since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner, focusing on famine and humanitarian crises, including the African Union High-Level Panel on Sudan and South Sudan.
Catriona Murdoch is a Partner at Global Rights Compliance (GRC) with expertise on the crime of starvation and accountability for atrocity crimes. At GRC, she manages the strategy to advance accountability for the crime of starvation. In this role, she leads large grant programmes in support of the agenda and provides legal advice to States, UN bodies, and CSOs to assess the legality and accountability prospects of conflict-induced hunger. Separately, in support of GRC's broader conflict work, Catriona provides advice on accountability strategies and works with CSOs to investigate and prosecute international crimes.
Wayne Jordash QC is Managing Partner of Global Rights Compliance, where he advises states and corporations regarding their responsibilities to protect civilians and international law in conflict-affected and high-risk areas. He has worked in all the international courts over the last two decades, representing governments, military and political leaders, and victims. He has represented the Serbia Government at the International Court of Justice, the (post revolution) Libyan Government, the Ukrainian Government, Rohingya, and Sri Lankan Tamils at the International Criminal Court, and the ex-head of the State Security of Serbia at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Contributors:
Aditya Sarkar
Alex de Waal
Ali Aljasem
Benjamin J. Spatz
Bridget Conley
Catriona Murdoch
Chris Newton
Daniel Maxwell
Dyan Mazurana
Jane Ferguson
Joe Holmes
Kinsey Spears
Mohammad Kanfash
Oliver Windridge
Randle C. DeFalco
Senai Abraha
Simone Hutter
Susanne Jaspars
Uzay Yasar Aysev
Wayne Jordash QC