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Dr. Delon Omrow | Crimes Against the Planet? | CACOR Zoom Presentation | 2022-07-20
July 20, 2022 @ 13:30 - 15:00 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Delon Omrow
Topic: Crimes Against the Planet?
Time: Jul 20, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Competing criminological perspectives weigh in on how to define crimes against the environment. The strict legalist approach adopts a very rigid definition, while the social legalist perspective embraces a more holistic approach to documenting various harms against the planet. The failure to hold climate crimes and carbon criminals accountable has garnered the attention of the international community, especially as the push to criminalize ecocide has gained momentum. We have a long way to go, however, before the term “ecocide” is added to the International Criminal Court’s statute. What makes things all the more challenging is state-corporate environmental violence. This presentation will outline the definitional issues surrounding “ecocide” and the codification to criminalize environmental destruction. The campaign to include the crime of “ecocide” as the fifth international Crime Against the Peace is an uphill battle, but the solution may be in leveraging other international frameworks of human security and environmental security, both of which are adopted by the United Nations.
Biography:
Dr. Delon Alain Omrow is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in criminology from York University and the University of Toronto, respectively. Dr. Omrow worked with Conservation International Guyana, overseeing the establishment of the country’s first community-owned conservation area and is the author of A History of Discursive Violence: constructing the Amerindian ‘other’. H e teaches in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, exploring what he refers to as racialized ecologies; the androcentric-anthropocentric symbiosis of trauma; and the way the lived experiences of the disempowered and marginalized are articulated through contemporary environmental discourse. In addition, he has written for numerous publications including The European Journal of Research and Reflection in Arts and Humanities and The International Journal of Academic Research and Reflection.