Brown Bag Seminar with Rinata Kazak
Ecocide in Ukraine: environmental destruction and the case for international recognition
Welcome to EHL's October Brown Bag Seminar, with Rinata Kazak, Linköping University, who will be sharing her work on the environmental destructions in Ukraine due to the war and how these destructions impact international ecocide legislation and recognition.
Tid:
To 2025-10-23 kl 12.00 - 13.00
Plats:
Kitchen, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5
Språk:
English
Medverkande:
Rinata Kazak, Linköping University
Exportera till kalender
The talk will be focused on how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted severe environmental destruction and and whether this moment can serve as a momentum for international recognition of ecocide as a crime. Rinata will share early insights from her ongoing research project, Reshaping Ecocide in International Law: From the Russian Invasion of Ukraine to Global Green Transformations. Her work examines the evolving concept of ecocide, focusing on the distinction between wartime and peacetime ecocide, and how these two contexts intersect. Additionally, she will provide an update on the current status of investigations into ecocide-related cases in Ukraine offering a unique perspective from Ukrainian jurisdiction.
This talk aims reflect on a critical question: can war drive legal change?
Register for the seminar and vegan sandwich
here.
Rinata Kazak i
s a PhD, Lecturer at the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change at Linköping University and Associate Professor of Legal History (Ukraine). She leads the project“Reshaping Ecocide in International Law”, funded by Formas. Affiliated with both Linköping University and the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR), Rinata’s research focuses on on ecocide and agriecocide as consequences of war, and as potential pathways toward green societal transformation and a more secure and equitable climate future.
Rinata explores how legal norms and environmental policies are constructed and evolve over time within the broader context of climate change. Her current work examines the intersection of sustainable development and environmental protection legislation and policy, with a particular focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
