The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30-2:00p.m. ET
Nuclear deterrence and disarmament discussions often center on potential future use and threats of use of nuclear weapons. Attention is growing, however, on the harm that nuclear weapons have already done, mostly focused on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and on nuclear testing impacts. This talk offers a nuclear justice lens derived from concepts of transitional justice and related ideas of criminal liability, redress, truth-telling and apologies, and reform as a way to analyze efforts to redress such past nuclear harm, to assess the processes associated with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, and as a roadmap to institutional reform to prevent nuclear use and testing. It builds on the 2021 Peace Research Institute Frankfurt report Beyond the Ban: A Global Agenda for Nuclear Justice.
About the speakers: Jana Baldus is a Doctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) studying the increasing polarization within the NPT, focusing on different conceptions of the nuclear norms and structural differences within the NPT regime. Caroline Fehl is a PRIF Senior Researcher whose work revolves around international security norms and institutions with a focus on nuclear disarmament and arms control, and international criminal justice. Sascha Hach is a PRIF Doctoral Researcher and teaches at the University of the Federal Armed Forces and studies rule and resistance in the nuclear order and the role of the UN in international security, disarmament, and arms control.