September 8, 10:00 AM EDT (3:00 PM UK)
WEBINAR: The Biosphere of Genocidewith Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah – Chair of Conflict Medicine
by Britain Palestine Project
Topic: The Biosphere of Genocide
Speaker: Dr Ghassan Abu‑Sittah – British‑Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon; Lord Rector, University of Glasgow (2024); Professor of Conflict Medicine at AUBMC
When: Monday 8 September, 10:00 AM EDT (3:00–4:00 pm UK time)
Where: Online (Zoom link sent on registration)
Why this matters: In Oct–Nov 2023, Dr Abu‑Sittah spent 43 days operating in Gaza at Shifa and Al‑Ahli Baptist Hospitals; his testimony has informed submissions to the ICJ and ICC.
The biosphere is the physical, biological, and social environment that people inhabit. It shapes and determines their health. War, and this genocidal war in Gaza being the most extreme form of it, turns this biosphere into a biosphere that takes away people's health and lives in a multitude of interconnected conduits; where the destruction of the physical, the alteration of the biological through injury, and the destruction of the social all work together in synergy - and separately - to shape a new reality of human health that is the product of this war.
Bring your questions—there will be live Q&A.
Warm wishes,
The Britain Palestine Project Team