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Conference

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

Date
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Time
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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