/peace-conflict-studies/ en /peace-conflict-studies/events/justice-solution-war-facing-down-terrorists-warlords-and <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Justice as a Solution to War: Facing Down Terrorists, Warlords, and Thugs</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/peace-conflict-studies/users/pacsasst" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" content="pacsasst" xml:lang="">Conrad Grebel …</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 10/03/2019 - 11:03</span> <section class="uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col uw-contained-width"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p> </p><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-right" data-width="500" data-height="281"> <img src="/peace-conflict-studies/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screenshot-2019-10-3_justice_as_a_solution_to_war_facing_down_terrorists_warlords_and_thugs_conrad_grebel_university_coll.png" width="500" height="281" alt="Event poster featuring a silhouette of a person holding scales. On top of image is text of the event details." loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <span>War is not inevitable. It can be limited, if not defeated outright, by law fairly applied and enforced. As we reflect on Remembrance Day, and note the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions that were developed to restrict the impact of war, come hear David Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone who investigated, indicted, and prosecuted Charles Taylor, the first sitting head of state for war crimes and crimes against humanity, talk about how law can make war less likely, or at least less lethal.</span><img alt="<--break->" src="/peace-conflict-studies/profiles/uw_base_profile/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif" /><p>Free | Register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/justice-as-a-solution-to-war-facing-down-terrorists-warlords-and-thugs-registration-72410149707">here</a>.<img alt="<--break->" src="/peace-conflict-studies/profiles/uw_base_profile/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif" /></p> <p>This event is co-sponsored by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, the <a href="https://www.redcross.ca/">Canadian Red Cross</a>, <a href="/grebel/">Conrad Grebel University College</a>, <a href="https://www.wlu.ca/">Wilfrid Laurier University</a> and <a href="https://ploughshares.ca/">Project Ploughshares</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:03:13 +0000 Conrad Grebel University Peace and Conflict Studies 198 at /peace-conflict-studies