ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice

8-12 June 2010, Scandic Linköping Väst, Sweden

Theme 1: General Aspects of R2P

09:00-09:15 ESF Rapporteur
Zdenka Mansfeldovà, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CH
ESF Presentation

09:15-10:00 Edward Luck, International Peace Institute, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General, United Nations
The normative journey: the evolution of the R2P concept

10:00-11:00 Panel I: The politics of R2P: unpacking the consensus

- Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations Mission, US

- Ambassador Ebenezer Appreku, Permanent Mission of tGhana to the United Nations Mission, UK

- Mónica Serrano, Global Centre for R2P, US

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

SHORT TALKS I

11:30-11:40 Christian Bueger, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
R2P: More a fashion than a norm?

11:40-11:50 Marc Alexander C. Gionet, St. Thomas University, CA
The conceptual impetus for R2P & current contributions

11:50-12:00 Jonas Claes, United States Institute of Peace, US
Tackling the drivers of R2P-rejectonism

12:00-12:10 Sapna Chhatpar Considineu, International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, US 
The role of civil society organizations in advancing the responsibility to protect

12:10-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Theme 2: Responsibilities of the Territorial State

13:30-14:15 Nicolas Michel, University of Geneva, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, CH
Protection responsibilities of the territorial state under international law: existing legal obligations

14:15-15:15 Panel II: Assisting states in the implementation of their international obligations in the face of a threat of international crimes

- Alvaro de Soto, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, CH and former special adviser to the Secretary-General, United Nations
R2P Mediation

- Sarah Sewall, MARO Project, Harvard Kennedy School, US,
Preventative deployment

SHORT TALKS II

15:15-15:25 Claudia Francisca Fuentes Julio, University of Denver, US
The responsibility to protect in Latin America

15:25-15:35 Serena Sharma, University of Oxford, UK
The challenges of implementing a preventive agenda: lessons from Kenya

15:35-15:45 Hanne Cuyckens, University of Leuven, BE
The responsibility to prevent: on the assumed legal nature of R2P and its relationships with conflict prevention

15:45-16:00 Discussion

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:15 Film Screening: ‘Worse than War’
The first major documentary to explore the phenomenon of genocide and how we can stop it.
By Daniel Goldhagen, author of ‘Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity’ and ‘Hitlers Willing Executioners’

18:15-18:30  Break
 
18:30-19:15 Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard University, US 
Lecture / discussion 

19:15-20:00 Poster Session: all selected posters will have a slot of 3 minutes for a short presentation, afterwards posters can be displayed for the rest of the week.

20:00 Dinner

Theme 3: Responsibilities of Other States

09:00-09:45  Jann Kleffner, Swedish National Defense College, SE
The scope of crimes that trigger R2P           

09:45-10:00 SHORT TALK
Jarrod Wong, University of the Pacific, McGeorge, US
Reconstructing the responsibility to protect in the wake of cyclones and separatism

10:00-10:45 Nina Jørgensen, Special Court for Sierra Leone and Chinese University of Hong Kong, CN
Obligations of other states and international organizations under international law

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

SHORT TALKS III

11:15-11:25 Hanna Brollowski, TMC Asser Institute, NL
Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions and obligations of third states

11:25-11:35 Manuela Melandri, University College London, UK
The responsibility to rebuild as an emerging norm of international law?

11:35-11:45 Veronica Bilkova, Charles University, CZ
Friends or Enemies? R2P and International Law

11:45-11:55 Ludovica Poli, University of Turin, IT 
R2P within the Security Council’s open debates on PoC: symptoms of the emersion of a new international law norm

11:55-12:15 Discussion

12:15-13:00 Sarah Nouwen, University of Cambridge, UK
R2P and complementarity: critical lessons from the practice of the ICC

13:00-14:00 Lunch

15:00-18:00 Excursion

19:30 Get together & conference Dinner

Theme 4: Timely and Decisive Responses

09:00-09:45 Anne Peters, University of Basel, CH
The responsibility to intervene of the Security Council

09:45-10:30 Daphna Shraga, Principal Legal Officer in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, US         
R2P and the role of peace keeping operations

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Panel III: The moral foundations of responsibilities of other states

- James Pattison, University of Manchester, UK
Who Should Intervene? Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect

- Jennifer Welsh, University of Oxford, UK
Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention

SHORT TALKS IV

12:00-12:10 Diana Amnéus, Lund University, SE
Has humanitarian intervention become part of international law under the R2P doctrine?

12:10-12:20 David Moszkowicz, Amsterdam Center for International Law, NL
The responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention: a moral and legal inquiry into a duty to intervene

12:20-12:30 Kalliopi Stathopoulou, University of Nottingham, UK
Responsibility to protect and positive peace: a blueprint for post-conflict peacebuilding?

12:30-12:40 Kuwali Dan, Lund University, SE
Protect responsibility: implementation of Article 4(h) + R2P

12:40-13:00 Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Panel IV: The role of regional organizations: future challenges
CHAIR: Monica Serrano, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, US

- Ademola Abass, Brunel University, UK
The role of regional organizations under Chp VIII UN Charter

- Ambassador Stig Elvemar, Chair of CONUN during the EU Swedish Presidency in 2009, SE
The European Union

- Samuel M. Atuobi, Kofi Annan Peacekeeping Centre, GH
The African Union

- Noel M. Morada, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland St Lucia, Brisbane, AU
The ASEAN

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:00 Forward Look Session: conceptual, institutional and political challenges
- Edward Luck, International Peace Institute, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General, United Nations

17:00-18:00 Plenary Discussion
 
18:00 Closure

19:00 Dinner

Breakfast and departure at 8:30

Cordero Luis Alberto, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, CR
An Effective Arms Trade Treaty to Prevent Conflict: The Central American Case

Fabra-Mata Javier and Lid Knut Andreas O., University Jaume I and Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, NR
The Challenge of Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: the genocide analysis framework and indigenous peoples in Colombia
 
Halbert Jennifer Dee, Swansea University, UK
A Responsibility to Protect or Preclude? Examining the Beneficiaries of R2P

Kabau Tom Maina, University of Hong Kong, HK
Responsibility to protect civilians: the role of the African Union

Lieblich Eliav, Columbia University, US
The Responsibility to Protect and Consented Intervention in Internal Armed Conflicts: R2P’s Place within the General Legal Framework of Intervention with the Consent of a Party to a Civil War

Liu Chien-Yu, Georgetown Law Center, US
Rethinking the Scope of "Responsibility to Protect": A Case Study of the Earthquake in Haiti

Megy Susan, Irish Centre for Human Rights, IE
A Force for Good? Enhancing Military Capacities to More Effectively Protect Civilians from Mass Atrocities

Peters Daniel, University of Jena, DE
Implications of the double standard within the concept of the responsibility to protect

Raslan Ibrahim, University of Denver, US
R2P in the Middle East

Swatek-Evenstein Mark, Touro College Berlin, DE
R2P: Reconstructing Humanity as Responsibility?

Varaki Maria, National University of Ireland, IE
‘Responsibility to Protect and the ICC- ‘From prevention to intervention and vice versa’ Critical thoughts on legal challenges and political dilemmas around the “S” sovereignty word