Jocelyn Getgen. Preventing Atrocities Against Humanity

Episode Summary:

Preventing genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is an ongoing process that requires sustained effort over time to build the resilience of societies to atrocity crimes. In today’s episode we meet Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, to speak about her focus on human rights, public health, and atrocity prevention, slavery and the slave trade, indigenous rights, and human rights violations against minority groups. We discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine, how human rights violations and mass atrocities can be prevented, as well as the current displacement of the vulnerable Ukrainian population, what the United Nations calls the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

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