Borderline

Borderline is a podcast for defiant global citizens covering geopolitics, immigration and lives that straddle borders, with host Isabelle Roughol..

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Ukraine's other battlefield, with Thierry Cruvellier
Episode 53
Thursday, 5 May, 2022

"Ukraine has provided us with, I think, the most striking, the most rapid, the most swift and complete legal offensive or lawfare strategy that has ever been implemented."In this episode🇺🇦 Ukraine's aggressive lawfare strategy⚖️ International justice finally comes for the West🤐 Why former great powers can't cope with their colonial crimes🇫🇷 Reckoning with the Algerian War🇨🇩 The DR Congo schools us on prosecuting environmental destruction🇨🇴 Transitional justice lessons from Colombia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and more🕊 Restitutions, reparations and truth commissions – justice beyond the courtsShow notes[00:00:16] Intro[00:01:42] "There is a before Ukraine and an after Ukraine"[00:07:18] "Justice has become the third weapon of Ukraine's strategy"[00:11:46] Is lawfare a communication tool?``[00:15:39] The slow wheels of the ICC[00:18:43] Justice gets much more pragmatic at the local level: the example of environmental crimes in the DRC[00:25:52] A renewed interest in justice for indigenous people[00:28:58] Colombia, a case study for all-encompassing transitional justice[00:30:14] Why are some countries better than other at looking into their colonial past?[00:32:26] The restitution of pillaged objects[00:34:28] A generational reckoning with colonial crimes: the French Algerian war[00:40:13] Statues, history vs memory and the new frontline of transitional justice[00:42:53] Outro🌍 justiceinfo.net 📚 The Master of Confessions, by Thierry Cruvellier. Ecco Press. 2015. Find it here.🧬 Check out The Guardian's Science Weekly podcast, where I'm executive producer for the next few weeks. ★ Support this podcast ★