UNU Update The newsletter of United Nations University and its network of research and training centres and programmes |
Issue 11: September 2001 |
Conference
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The role of international
humanitarian law in building peace, conflict settlement and
reconciliation, and in promoting international norms of justice and
accountability will be examined at a conference of international law
experts to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 26-28.
The conference, From a Culture of Impunity to a Culture of Accountability, is organised by United Nations University and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University. Keynote speaker will be President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland. During three days of plenary sessions, the conference will explore the changing political and human rights context that gave rise to the establishment of the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the adoption of the Rome Statute. From an interdisciplinary perspective the conference will examine the political, legal and institutional experiences of the tribunals and the Rome Statute in a comparative and forward-looking way. Particular emphasis will be given to the actual and potential role of international humanitarian law in building peace, conflict settlement and reconciliation, and in promoting international norms of justice and accountability. Important questions will include:
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