Nienke Busscher and Obiozo Ukpabi discussed the impacts of extractivist logics of the fossil fuel industry on local residents in Groningen (Netherlands) and the Niger Delta (Nigeria). They explored the similarities and differences in state-corporate responses to the consequences of extraction, and described what is needed to improve current and future activities in both contexts.
Lees verderDuring the conference, Obiozo Ukpabi and Nienke Busscher of the Kennisplatform Leefbaar en Kansrijk Groningen presented a session about the impacts of oil and gas exploitation in the Niger Delta and Groningen.
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27/10/2023 ‘Hamas-Israël conflict moet studenten leren niemand te ontmenselijken’ – Trouw
‘Wees niet bang om ‘partij te kiezen’ gericht op humanisering’ – Nieuw Wij
In this opinion piece Siri Driessen, Nicole Immler, Obiozo Ukpabi and Niké Wentholt called on Dutch institutions for higher education to take a stand against dehumanization in the face of terrorist attacks and genocidal violence.
Lees verderIn this two-day international workshop organised at Tilburg University, participants were brought together from practice, academia and the student bodies in a transnational conversation about ethos of transnational lawyering. Obiozo Ukpabi presented an intervention to the meeting about the power of writing legal and political narratives, which align at times but not always. Obiozo shared […]
Lees verderThe workshop, which was held at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was organized by members of the TEGL research project, a collaboration between the law faculties of Maastricht University, Open Universiteit NL, Tilburg University and the UvA. Participants from academia and practice examined how the positions and arguments of judges and the litigating parties in climate cases […]
Lees verderAt the launch event of the Legal Mobilization Platform which took place at the Concordia CC in The Hague, Obiozo Ukpabi spoke about her research in a panel with Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh (UvA) and Misha Plagis (LeidenU). The panel, which was organised as a town-hall discussion, focused on conceptualising climate justice. It was moderated by Ambreena […]
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27/11/2022 ‘Mensen gaan boven economische belangen’ – NRC
Obiozo Ukpabi wrote an opinion piece where she calls on Shell to reckon with its controversial legacies in the Netherlands and Nigeria. Ukpabi writes in reaction to the decision of the four Nigerian widows who sued Shell for their alleged complicity in human rights violations in the Niger delta, to drop their case. After years of litigation they see no more options to seek redress for the ‘unavoidable consequences of the destructive logic of profit over people’.
Lees verderIn collaboration with Peter Aers (Building Conversation), Thomas Block (Centre for Sustainable Development, UGhent) and Ellen vandenplas (UGhent) Obiozo Ukpabi facilitated a Parliament of Things with students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to reflect on and discuss urgent ecological, social and political questions and their implications for human/non-human and ‘nature’ relationships. Inspired by the […]
Lees verderAll team members of the Dialogics of Justice project have participated in the two-day virtual conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Transitional Justice, hosted by the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture. The versatile program included panels on Transitional Justice and Politics of Recognition, Transitional Justice and Memory, and Transitional Justice, Human Rights, […]
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25/03/2021 ‘Maatschappij vs. fossiel’ – Pakhuis de Zwijger
Obiozo Ukpabi participated in a panel discussion hosted by Pakhuis de Zwijger on the growing number of (legal) confrontations between citizens and NGOs on the one hand, and fossil fuel corporations on the other.
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