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IBA War Crimes Committee Conference 2026: Masters of war

18 Apr 2026

Session information

Tradeoffs: war, supply and profit

Saturday 18 April (1215 - 1330)

Description

Corporate, financial and legal actors are increasingly (or less opaquely) implicated in atrocity crimes, from supplying weapons to facilitating sanctions evasion. Conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar and Israel/Palestine highlight the entanglement of business, state policy and serious violations of international law.

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Alexandre Prezanti	G37 Chambers, London, England

Speakers

Mutasim Ali	Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Mariana Gutierrez Gaytan	FIND, Crawley, England
Polina Levina	UN, Geneva, Switzerland

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