Speech and Q&A with Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, LSE Fellow

Dr. Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics. He formerly taught at Somerville College, Oxford, and King's College London.

Alonso’s work focuses on the history of the international regulation of war and political violence, from a postcolonial perspective. His latest book, Conflicto Armado en el Perú: La Época del Terrorismo bajo el Derecho Internacional (University of the Pacific Press, 2019) explores the role of international humanitarian law in post-conflict political discourses in Peru.

Alonso will discuss the decline of the international rules-based order and the history of international law and international responses to genocide. He will make particular reference to the Gaza Genocide (2023-5) and various international responses from both Global North and Global South countries to the violence.