Relevant Events
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
9:00 am - 3:30 pm EST
Copley Formal Lounge, Georgetown University
RSVP HERE
Since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, experts across law, policy, and academia have consistently raised alarm over the Kremlin’s genocidal rhetoric and escalating atrocities. Three and a half years into the full-scale invasion, evidence of mass killings, torture, sexual violence, mass deportation of children and shelling of vital civilian infrastructure is overwhelming. With peace negotiations stalled and Russian offensives against Ukraine’s civilian and critical energy infrastructure intensifying ahead of the winter, the time is critical for the international community to examine the moral, legal, and policy implications of Russia’s actions through the lens of genocide.
The conference will include four panel sessions, consisting of leading international lawyers, historians, policymakers, security experts, and diplomats, each examining a different facet of Russia’s genocidal rhetoric and actions, and identifying tangible legal, political, and diplomatic strategies to halt Russia’s campaign to erase Ukraine and its people.
Co-hosted by the International Partnership for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, New Lines Institute, and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, in collaboration with the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project and the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.