Reports

Fact-finding mechanisms

Hellestveit has written a chapter on fact-finding mechanisms under international law in the Research Handbook on International Law and Peace (Elgar) edited by Professor Cecilia Baillet. Hellestveit presented the chapter at a book-launch at the Faculty of Law during Oslo Peace Days.
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Bøker og kapitler

Synthetic biology and international law in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology

Hellestveit has co-authored a chapter on Synthetic biology and the Biological Weapons Convention in the Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology  with Filippa Lentzos. The chapter traces recent developments and trends in weaponization of synthetic biology, and assesses whether the categorical ban on biological weapons under international law applies…
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Issues

Marine plastic pollution

Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans,[1] the equivalent of dumping one garbage truck of waste every minute. In a business-as-usual scenario, it is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in the ocean.[2] Plastic affects wildlife, contaminates fish stocks, and degrades the…
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Events

Genocide and non-state perpetrators under international law

Hellestveit made a presentation  at an international conference in September 2018 to commemorate The UN Genocide Convention at 70: The Politics of Mass Atrocity Prevention  at a session addressing non-state perpetrators of mass-atrocities.  Hellestveit's paper, entitled  Tribes, Thugs, Terrorists, and the Law: Non-Conventional Armed Violence and the Genocide Convention analyses the particular…
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