The initial goal is to define ‘ecocide’, and while any formal recognition of the term as a crime in international law could be years away, Dr Rachel Killean, from the School of Law at Queen’s, has based a lot of her research on the merits of changing international law to see ecocide established alongside war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

by Mark Bain for Belfast Telegraph, 23/06/2021