Conferences of Interest

Genocide and Human Experience: Raphael Lemkin's Thought and Vision
An International Conference; Sunday 15 November,2009

Conference on War Crimes, February 20/21 2009

War Crimes. Retrospectives and Prospects: Identifying war crimes and the perpetrators is a key part of post-conflict resolution?

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Speakers Include Lesley Abdela Professor David Fraser Michael Kandiah Frank McDonough Hans Pawlisch Dr David Seymour Professor David Sugarman

Details, including the programme and the booking form will be available on the SOLON, IALS, and CCBH websites: http://www.perc.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/ http://ials.sas.ac.uk/ http://icbh.ac.uk/

Further info on speakers see below or go to search engines, viz http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=lesley+abdela+post+conflict&spell=1)

Prospective themes include:

The implications of the use of national/international courts and tribunals and the problems of jurisdiction
The role of the media in portraying war crimes, and the rhetoric used
Legal issues, e.g. the nature of evidence in war crimes trials; questions of jurisdiction
Witness perspectives: protection, access to courts; financial support; are their voices heard?
Studies of individual cases and trials. Do prosecutions serve justice? The impact of recent trials, e.g. Milosevic and Saddam Hussein

Proposals are invited for papers examining a range of related issues (around 350 words). Please send to Belinda Crothers at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies by 1 September 2008 email: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk.

Lesley Abdela, specialist in Gender in post-conflict/post-natural disaster reconstruction, and Gender in Humanitarian Aid
David Fraser, Prof of Law and Social Theory, Nottingham University
Michael Kandiah, Director Witness Seminars Programme, Centre for Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, specialising in the Cold War period
Frank McDonough, Reader in International History, Liverpool John Moores University
Hans Pawlisch, currently historian to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington
David Seymour, law lecturer Lancaster University, known for his work on human rights and anti-Semitism
David Sugarman, professor of law Lancaster University, currently working on the Pinochet episode