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Atrocity and Accountability: International Conference

Organised by the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway and the United Nations University, Tokyo
Galway, Ireland, 15-16 July 2004

Draft PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 14 July 2004
19:00

Welcome reception
Thursday, 15 July 2004
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30 Introductory Remarks

Ramesh Thakur, Senior Vice-Rector, United Nations University, Tokyo
(Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations)
Iognaid O Muirhurtaigh, President, National University of Ireland, Galway

10:00-13:00 Prosecutorial Strategy of International Criminal Tribunals and Courts

Chair: *David Scheffer, Professor, Georgetown University

Speakers:
Carla del Ponte, Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
David Crane, Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

 
14:30-17:00 Independence and Impartiality of International Criminal Tribunals

Chair: Maureen Harding Clark, Judge, International Criminal Court

Speakers:
Luc Côté, Chief of Prosecutions, Special Court for Sierra Leone
William Schabas, Professor and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights
Diane Amann, Professor, University of California, Davis

19:30 Conference Dinner

Speaker:
Lloyd Axworthy, President of the University of Winnipeg and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada

Friday, 16 July 2004
9:30-13:00 Obstacles to Accountability: Amnesties and Immunities

Chair: Theodor Meron, President, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Speakers:
Michael Scharf, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Christine Van den Wyngaert, Professor, University of Antwerp
*George Bizos, Senior Counsel, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg

 
14:30-17:00 Alternatives to Prosecution

Chair: Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Speakers:
Gerald Gahima, Procurator-General, Republic of Rwanda
Catherine Jenkins, Director of the Centre for Law and Conflict, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ian Martin, Vice-President, International Centre for Transitional Justice

* To be confirmed.