The goal of this project is to provide our sponsor, Island Reach, with initial research relating to the common themes between concerned citizens and the New Zealand government. This will help our sponsors create a strategy to urge New Zealand to become a supporter of an international crime of ecocide written under the Rome Statute. Ecocide as international law would allow states protected by the ICC to prosecute powerful individuals for mass ecological damage. Through these similarities, we can conclude that the media can be a powerful tool to influence and educate people about the term ecocide, the timing for the introduction of an ecocide law depends on the members in office, and a member of Parliament needs to act as an advocate for an international crime of ecocide.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Stead, Emily Anne
• Biederman, Kyra R.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030520-221319

Stichwort

• Urban and Environmental Planning

Advisor

• Pollice, Gary F.
• Dodson, Leslie Lynn

Year

• 2020

Center

• Wellington, New Zealand Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Island Reach

Date created

• 2020-03-05

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright