How does the threat posed by nuclear weapons affect the conflicts in which nuclear powers are involved? What tools - legal and diplomatic alike - are available to regulate these weapons and prevent their use?
The nuclear threat is growing. Escalating warfare, political posturing, and geopolitical shifts raise the immediacy of concerns regarding the immense destruction that the use of nuclear weapons would leave in their wake.
The 2023 edition of the Joakim Dungel Lectures in International Justice seeks to make sense of the issue as our speakers help us understand the technology, history, legality, and politics of nuclear weapons. The speakers also draw on their extensive experience and research to shed light on efforts to regulate nuclear weapons, and what this regulation and the multilateralism it depends on mean in an increasingly conflict-prone and polarized global setting.
Programme
9:15 Welcome and setting the scene
Dr Sari Kouvo, Associate Professor, Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law / Gothenburg university
9:30 Nuclear Weapons: A Technical, Military, and Political Introduction
Dr Jens Wirstam, Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency
Moderated by Sari Kouvo
10:00 Break
10:15 Nuclear Weapons and International and Humanitarian Law: Historical and Contemporary Developments
Dr Gail Lythgoe, Lecturer in International Law, University of Manchester
Dr Eirini Giorgou, Legal Adviser, Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross
Moderated by Karin Åberg
Discussion
Moderated by Emilia Dungel, chairperson, Association in Memory of Joakim Dungel
11:30 Concluding words
Sari Kouvo and Emilia Dungel, organizers
Read more: www.gu.se/evenemang/nuclear-weapons-legality-and-diplomacy