Prof. Hossain spoke at the Arctic Circle Japan Forum 2023!

Prof. Kamrul Hossain has organized a Panel at the Arctic Circle Japan Forum 2023 held in Toranomon Hill Forum from 04-06, 2023. The panel, “The Cryosphere: Legitimizing the links between the Arctic and the Third Pole,” comprised four speakers from Finland, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Norway. The panel covered a range of topics connecting the Arctic and the Third Pole Himalayan region, including pollution, geoengineering, geopolitics, and international law. Prof. Hossain particularly touched upon linkages between the Arctic and Third Pole from the viewpoint of governance under International law. He examined the governance challenges under the current structure of the international legal framework. While he argued for the need for a deconstruction of the normative framework of international law, in his presentation, he limited himself to critically examining the challenges of the prevailing approaches to inter-state governance of transnational spaces, such as the Arctic and the Third Pole.