Nuremberg Academy, 2015
Category Archives: MEDIA
The Importance of Prosecuting Pillage of Natural Resources
ICTJ Conference. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Inside the Blackwater Trial
Columbia Law School, 2014
Click here to listen to the audio from James Stewart and Sara Gray’s talk at Columbia.
Loot, Pillage and Plunder: Prosecuting Economic War Crimes in the 21st Century
Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2014
The Accomplice Liability of Arms Vendors: A Conceptual Defense
York University, Osgoode Hall
Open Society Foundations, New York
“Who sold these weapons? The Accomplice Liability of Arms Vendors for International Crimes”
In recent years, a number of courts have tried businessmen who supply weapons to notoriously brutal regimes for complicity in the international crimes their clients perpetrated. James Stewart, an Open Society Fellow and former war crimes prosecutor, explores some of the implications of these cases. His work has shown, for example, that prosecuting arms vendors might be an effective means of halting the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pursuing arms vendors for complicity in international crimes will also have serious geopolitical consequences, especially for major weapons producers like China, Russia, and the United States.
Robert Varenik, director of programs for the Open Society Justice Initiative, introduces the event.
Click here to listen to the audio from James Stewart’s talk at OSI.