Hunger, starvation and famine are silent tragedies of wars. Limited or no access to food has often a devastating impact on civilian populations, and is one of the leading causes of death in armed conflict. Starvation has been used as a method of warfare despite clear prohibitions under international humanitarian law and international criminal law. But how much attention has been given to this issue in the past years? Have we seen any improvement? What are the most acute challenges with regard to hunger and armed conflicts that the international community is facing?

In this episode, the co-hosts Antonio Coco and Ana Srovin Coralli discuss the many challenges related to food insecurity in war with Brian Lander, the Deputy Emergency Director of the World Food Programme and an alumnus of the Geneva Academy�s Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict.

Links

- United Nations World Food Programme https://www.wfp.org/

- United Nations Security Council Resolution 2417 (2018) https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1627380?ln=en

- IHL Talk: Starvation and Armed Conflict https://www.geneva-academy.ch/event/past-events/detail/147-starvation-and-armed-conflicts

- Research Brief: Harmonizing War Crimes Under the Rome Statute

https://www.geneva-academy.ch/joomlatools-files/docman-files/Harmonizing%20War%20Crimes%20Under%20The%20Rome%20Statute.pdf

- Coco, de Hemptinne, Lander (eds), Special Issue on Starvation in International Law, 17(4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 2019

https://academic.oup.com/jicj/issue/17/4

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Credits for the production go to Margherita Capacci, Nathalie Mivelaz Tirabosco and Paola Gaeta.