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.

We continue to hope for the return of peace and stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and the citizens of Russia who will bear the cost of its government’s lawlessness.

The Speaker:

Jocelyn Getgen is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Her scholarship focuses on human rights, public health, and atrocity prevention, especially related to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based crimes, slavery and the slave trade, indigenous rights, and human rights violations against minority groups. She holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and an MPH from the John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Hosts: Elizabeth Zhivkova & Farah Piriye, ZEITGEIST19 Foundation

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