25 October 2022: CIL Director Dr Nilüfer Oral was Invited to Participate in an Interactive Dialogue: Welcoming a New Legal Framework on Armed Conflict and the Environment

Ahead of the adoption of the International Law Commission’s principles on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts (PERAC), Dr Oral joined the Commission members and experts to discuss the PERAC process, its outcome and its importance.

Interactive dialogue: Amb. Marja Lehto (Special Rapporteur, PERAC), Amb. Marie Jacobsson (former Special Rapporteur, PERAC), Dr Nilufer Oral (ILC member); facilitator, Dr Stavros Pantazopoulos (University of Helsinki)

Speakers: Carl Bruch (President, Environmental Peacebuilding Association), Doug Weir (Director, Conflict and Environment Observatory)

Sponsored by: Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Organized by: The Conflict and Environment Observatory, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, IUCN-WCEL Specialist Group on Environmental Security and Conflict Law, University of Essex, University of Helsinki