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3 - 5 March 2011, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

This conference will explore themes surrounding judicial roles and responses to war crimes and also responses to such initiatives from victims/victors, interested agencies and commentators, including the UN, NATO and various local, regional and international NGOs.

2nd Biennial War Crimes Conference
3 - 5 March 2011, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

An initiative between SOLON, the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies University of London
and the Centre for Contemporary British History KCL

Conference enquiries [email][email protected] or [email][email protected]

Speakers include Lesley Abdela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_abdela); Jose Pablo Baraybar (EPAF, Peru); David Fraser (Nottingham U); Cissa Wa Numbe (UNA-DCR); Silke Studzinsky (ECCC, Cambodia); Szymon Janczarek (ECHR Poland); Adrawa Lawrence Dulu (Development Peace); Kris Wetherholt (HMF); Michael Kandiah (CCBH@KCL); Shirley Randell (Kigali U, Rwanda: [email protected] or [email][email protected] 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/

Suggested themes include:
· Historical and contemporary considerations of ‘forgetting’ and memory in war crimes.
· The implications of the use of national or international courts and tribunals and the problems of jurisdiction.
· The role of the media in portraying war crimes, and the rhetoric used.
· Witness perspectives: protection, access to courts; financial support; are their voices heard?
· Legal issues, eg: the nature of evidence in war crimes trials; questions of jurisdiction; benefits and limitations of doctrinal approaches; strategies for harmonising legal definitions; should grave national or international crimes be time-limited?
· Witness perspectives: protection, access to courts; financial support; are their voices heard?
· Studies of individual cases and trials. Do prosecutions serve justice?
· Theory and war crimes, legal and philosophical perspectives, law and ethics, law and culture, law and politics.