A Close look at the OTP-ICC Policy on Environmental Damage (A Path to Ottawa Event)

Mar 24, 2026 | EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group (TJ-IG)

Please join us for this Path to Ottawa Event on March 24, 2026, at 10:00 Am EST (6:00 PM EAT, 4:00 PM CET). The session will be 90 minutes long. Please see below for the session description and speakers. 

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Session Description

Environmental damage in conflict and post conflict societies, and its subsequent impacts on both ecosystems and the peoples’ human rights, has increasingly become a point of concern for practitioners from diverse fields.

The concern and awareness on the environmental issues has led to a clarion call, and a demand, for environmental harm and damage to be recognized and addressed not only at national levels, but at the global level, not only in times of conflict, but also in times of peace.

So far, it is becoming clear that the environment should be an agenda in any transitional justice, peacebuilding and humanitarian effort.

In support of the call for national and international actors to do more in the environment-conflict and peacebuilding nexus, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC in December 2025 launched a Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage through the Rome Statute. While some have applauded the policy as a milestone that provides an opportunity, others have cast doubt on the development.

The webinar will provide a platform to share practitioner reflections on OTP-ICC policy, and examine the opportunities and challenges associated with the OTT-ICC policy.

Speakers

• Session Moderator: Ms. Munini Mutuku, Chair Transitional Justice Interest Group (TJ-IG)
• Dr Daniëlla DAM-DE JONG, Associate Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
• James Gondi, the Africa Director for Stop Ecocide International, Kenya.