Conference

Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles

Date

Wednesday 15 May 2024

Time

09:00 - 17:30 hour

Address

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
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
Lunch
13:15-15:00		Ukraine/Russian (Discussant TBD)  Alexandra Hofer & Mohammed Kanfash Sanctions as Violence: A Tool of Modern-Day Siege Warfare   Mariya Ditchkowska Balancing Act: Navigating Sanctions and the Tricky Case of Belarus  Kaan Özkonak The compatibility of Russia-related unilateral sanctions with the international rule of law principles	Financial Systems (Discussant: TBA)   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
15:15-17:00	Keynote Address by Haroun Rahimi The effects of sanctions on the governance of targeted states

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