Lisa Avery – World Peace Foundation

Catriona Murdock

September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 Lisa Avery 62 Views 0 Comment

Catriona is a Senior Legal Consultant with Global Rights Compliance, specializing in international human rights, criminal and humanitarian law. Learn more about our new and current Fellows here.

Arms Trade Corruption and Political Finance

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Lisa Avery 513 Views 0 Comment corruption, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, political finance

This occasional paper examines the link between political finance and corruption in the arms, trade drawing from the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption, a collection of 29 cases of corruption in the arms trade and the broader military sector from around the world.

famine Updates

Can we prosecute starvation?

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 Lisa Avery 274 Views 0 Comment

Published in partnership with Global Rights Compliance, this paper addresses what law might apply and what evidence would be required to pursue prosecution.

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Corruption in the Russian Defense Sector

May 18, 2018May 21, 2018 Lisa Avery 539 Views corruption, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, Russia

The report by Polina Beliakova and Sam Perlo-Freeman discusses information on corruption in the Russian defense sector, especially the arms industry, identifying key cases of corruption that have become visible in recent years, in particular since 2008, when Russia’s current set of military reforms, and major rearmament drive, began.

Events famine

The Return of Famine

March 22, 2018July 10, 2018 Lisa Avery 1828 Views

Friday, May 4, 2018
9:00am – 5:30pm
Drawing on Tufts University’s distinguished record of scholarship and public engagement on the subject of famine, this conference will bring together faculty and researchers from across the University, in conversation with outside experts. Panels will address why famine has returned, today’s humanitarian challenges, legal and political issues related to criminalizing famine, and the most pressing famine of today, Yemen.