Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

Global Rights Compliance (GRC) is proud to present the first dedicated textbook on the law of starvation, edited by Bridget Conley, Alex De Waal, Catriona Murdoch, and Wayne Jordash KC. This comprehensive volume features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners including Jane Ferguson, Simone Hutter, Oliver Windridge, Mohammad Kanfash, and many others.

The book addresses how famine, once nearly eliminated between 2000 and 2011, has re-emerged as a political and military tool. Recent famines—in places like Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen—are not natural disasters but the result of deliberate acts of war and political repression. These acts include blockades, attacks on health infrastructure, violence against aid workers, and obstruction of humanitarian relief.

Our Services and Activities

GRC contributes to advancing legal accountability for starvation-related crimes by developing legal theory, tools, and strategies to support litigation and criminal prosecution.
The project fosters collaboration among legal practitioners, humanitarian actors, and civil society to strengthen evidence-based advocacy and policy reform.
It raises awareness of the international legal frameworks applicable to starvation and promotes their application in efforts to prevent and respond to mass atrocities.

Deliverables

ALAUTHC4

This important publication brings together a group of experienced editors and contributors with strong backgrounds in international law, conflict, and humanitarian issues. GRC is also happy to present a 30% discount code for this book – ALAUTHC4 – which can be applied at checkout on the OUP website. Use the following link, which will apply the discount automatically, here.

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Editors: Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch, Wayne Jordash KC.

Contributors: Aditya Sarkar, Alex de Waal, Ali Aljasem, Benjamin J. Spatz, Bridget Conley, Catriona Murdoch, Chris Newton, Daniel Maxwell, Dyan Mazurana, Jane Ferguson, Joe Holmes, Kinsey Spears, Mohammad Kanfash, Oliver Windridge, Randle C. DeFalco, Senai Abraha, Simone Hutter, Susanne Jaspars, Uzay Yasar Aysev, Wayne Jordash KC.