Professor Penny Green

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation, Head of the School of Law and Founder/Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London.

Professor Green has published extensively on state crime state violence, mass forced evictions/displacement and resistance to state violence. She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia and Myanmar. Professor Green’s most recent projects include a comparative study of civil society resistance to state crime in Turkey, Tunisia, Colombia, PNG, Kenya and Myanmar; Myanmar’s genocide against its Muslim ethnic Rohingya; and forced evictions in Palestine/Israel. Her books include (State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption and State Crime and Civil Activism).

In 2015 she and her ISCI colleagues Thomas MacManus and Alicia de la Cour Venning published the seminal ‘Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar’ and in 2018 published,  ‘Genocide Achieved: Genocide Continues’.

Countdown to Annihilation, was based on 176 interviews with Rohingya in Myanmar’s Sittwe and Mrauk U detention camps, villages and Aung Mingalar ghetto, Rakhine and Kaman villagers, Buddhist monks, Rakhine nationalists, Rakhine politicians, business people and the international community in Rakhine state.