PROGRAM 2015


Thursday, April 23, 2015

Introductory address - Jennifer Welsh, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General on the Responsibility to Protect 


Opening session:
  • Chair: William R. Pace, Co-founder and Steering Committee Member of the International Coalition for Responsibility to Protect

  • Ruth Wedgwood, President of the International Law Association
  • Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Former Judge and Vice-President of the ICJ
  • Vladimir Kotlyar, Member of the International Law Council of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Aidan Hehir, Director of the Security and International Relations Programme at the University of Westminster 
  • Enzo M. Le Fevre Cervini, Director for Research and Cooperation at the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities/ Roma Tre University


Part 1: R2P in Theory
Panel 1: R2P – Norm, Principle,…?
Panel 2: Coercive Measures and the Role of the UN Security Council
Panel 3: Criminal Prosecutions of Perpetrators
Panel 4: Responsibility to Prevent

Gala conference dinner with the keynote speaker Professor Dr Danilo Türk, former President of the Republic of Slovenia
  • Live performance of the R2P Song by Murat&Jose
  • Performace by Pegius, choir of the Faculty of Law
  • Social dancing

Friday, April 24, 2015

Part 2: R2P in Practice
Panel 5, 6, 7: R2P, Specific Cases and Responses of States

Concluding remarks by Conference Chair Vasilka Sancin

Guided walking tour of Ljubljana
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