BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221018T1135Z-1666107349.1042-EO-405280-1@10.73.2.169 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T081006Z CREATED:20220808T102002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220808T102002Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211025T133000 SUMMARY: Perilous Medicine DESCRIPTION: More than 150 years ago\, the first Geneva Convention obliged that wounded and sick combatants of all parties be collected and cared for and that belligerents protect and respect ambulances and military hospitals . Over time\, the law extended protections to wounded and sick civilians an d required parties to take numerous affirmative measures to protect health […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
More than 150 years ago\, the first Geneva Convention obliged that wounded and sick combatants of all parties be coll ected and cared for and that belligerents protect and respect ambulances an d military hospitals. Over time\, the law extended protections to wounded a nd sick civilians and required parties to take numerous affirmative measure s to protect health workers\, hospitals\, ambulances\, and patients. These laws and their underlying norms are among the most widely accepted elements of international law. Yet the persistence and severity of violence against health-care personnel\, transports\, and buildings in war not only constit utes widespread noncompliance with the law but suggests that competing\, so metimes unarticulated\, norms are employed to rationalize the violence. Bas ed on his new book\, Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War\, Professor Len Rubenstein will discuss how the c ompeting norm — that harm to hospitals and health workers is (purportedly) morally acceptable if needed to win a just war more quickly than otherwise would be the case — plays out today in the logics of violence against healt h care. He will consider efforts at the global level to prevent violence an d hold perpetrators to account\, why those efforts to date have failed\, an d what could be done going forward.
LOCATION:Austin Hall\; 101 Classroom - East GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="API User":MAILTO:api@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/perilous-medicine-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR