Conference
Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
- Date
- Wednesday 15 May 2024
- Time
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague
Long hindered by tired and unproductive debates in international relations, sanctions scholarship is presently flourishing with novel and generative approaches to thinking about sanctions. This conference brings together students, officials, practitioners, and scholars to rethink sanctions, focusing on the future of sanctions scholarship and practice. We will consider the strained connection between international law and sanctions power, the autonomy of financial systems of mediating filters of the sanctions regime, the new modes of great-power driven sanctions-busting, the intersection of remittances and sanctions, the role of sanctions in defending human rights and the humanitarian harms that follow therefrom, among others. These thematic considerations will be matched to empirical studies of ongoing sanctions, from the forgotten sanctioning of Afghanistan and Syria to Russia and beyond.
Partner organisations:
JustRemit, ISGA, ASSER
Timetable
Room | 2.02 | 3.60 | 2.64 |
09:00-10:30 |
Introductory Lecture by Matthew Hoye (for Leiden Students) Catastrophic Policy Success: Sanctions, Remittances, and Afghanistan |
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10:45-12:15 | Roundtable: Sanctions and the Pursuit of Accountability for International Crimes: Critical Reflections Discussant: Zsófia Baumann James Patrick Sexton David Kinnecome Dr. Niki Siampakou |
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Lunch | |||
13:15-15:00 |
Ukraine/Russian
Sanctions as Violence: A Tool of Modern-Day Siege Warfare Mariya Ditchkowska Balancing Act: Navigating Sanctions and the Tricky Case of Belarus The compatibility of Russia-related unilateral sanctions with the international rule of law principles |
Financial Systems
Mohammed Muse The Ambiguity, Opaqueness and Consequences of FATF’s Remittance Regulatory Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Somalia and Nigeria
Miles Kellerman Licensed Detection Agents: A Proposal for Financial Crime Bounty Hunters
Daniel Robins The Medium is the Message: cryptocurrencies and the geographies of alternative remittances from Trinidad & Tobago to Venezuela
Jean Yves Ndzana Ndzana The Dual impact of coercive sanctions on financial Systems and civilian livelihoods: A Comparative Analysis of Iran and Venezuela |
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15:15-17:00 |
Keynote Address by Haroun Rahimi |