Zandbak Eindhoven
Placemaking Campaign
Clients: Gemeente Eindhoven, AM, EDGE Technologies, Amvest, Pro-Rail
Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s)
of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such
an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has
been or will be severely diminished.
It was first mentioned because of the chemical warfare during the Vietnam
War and has been one of the 12 crimes, which were proposed at the
international Criminal Court as International Crimes against peace in 1992.
Allegedly it was removed because of lobbying from the draft of the Rome
Statute, the founding document of the International Criminal Court.
In 2010 Polly Higgins an English Barrister proposed an amendment to the
Rome Statute to incorporate Ecocide as the 5th Crime against Peace. This
Proposal raised the interest of several organizations and groups, which are
nowadays supporting the amendment of the Rome Statute.
“This is Ecocide” creates a physical and a digital stage for ecocide law for
the public to get informed, involved and demand a change in international
law. The physical stage becomes a place for specialists to inform and
emphasize on the importance of ecocide law. These talks are represented
as movies on www.thisisecocide.org, which should become a place to unite
those speakers and create awareness about the topic. The website also
generates evidence of existing ecocide due to the possibility of sending in
pictures and other evidence about ecocides happening. This can become a tool to provide evidence by the inhabitants, who are directly affected by ecocide. Through this an archive of evidence starts to exist which could be used in future trials.
