The past decade has seen a significant shift in global sanctions practice away from the targeted measures that characterised the 2000s. Teemed with a rise in counter terrorism (CT) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, this has resulted in financial sector over-compliance, or “de-risking”, and a withdrawal of humanitarian organisations (the “chilling effect”). This project will be first empirical study comparing the risk mitigation strategies used by non-state actors involved in the delivery of food and medicine to heavily sanctioned jurisdictions, such as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria. 

This two-day launch workshop will be held in-person and online with all project members to discuss and plan the project, as well as a side event (funded by the European Research Council Project “Bombs, Banks and Sanctions”, led by Grégoire Mallard) to plan a Special Issue in a leading law or International Relations (IR) journal on this wider subject area and with a COVID-19 focus.

This workshop is by invitation only.

The event will be held in-person and online. To help protect our community from the spread of COVID-19, please note that face masks must be worn to all in-person events at the Graduate Institute.

For more information on this project, please see the project page.