«Пост-конфліктне правосуддя в Україні». Міжнародна наукова конференція

Українська Гельсінська спілка з прав людини, Європейське товариство міжнародного права і Українська асоціація міжнародного права повідомляють про проведення спільної міжнародної конференції “Пост-конфліктне правосуддя в Україні”.

Конференція відбудеться в Києві 26-27 травня 2017 року у Президент Готелі.

У конференції візьмуть участь провідні експерти з міжнародного права з України, США, Австралії, Азербайджану, Великої Британії, Данії, Італії, Казахстану, Канади, Нідерландів, Німеччини, Норвегії, Франції, Хорватії та інших країн. Серед спікерів – спеціальний доповідач ООН щодо сприяння встановленню істини, справедливості, відшкодування та гарантій неповторення військових конфліктів, судді Європейського суду з прав людини, судді міжнародних трибуналів з розгляду воєнних конфліктів у Югославії та Руанді, один зі співавторів Римського статуту.

Більше п’ятдесяти авторитетних вчених і експертів будуть дискутувати про втілення стандартів міжнародного права в галузі прав людини і міжнародного гуманітарного права під час і після збройного конфлікту; використання механізмів пост-конфліктного правосуддя для «гібридних» збройних конфліктів; позитивні зобов’язання держави за міжнародним кримінальним правом; роль міжнародних судових органів; комісії зі встановлення істини; амністії; процес пост-конфліктного примирення; відшкодування шкоди жертвам збройних конфліктів тощо.

Програма заходу – нижче. Робоча мова – англійська.

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Joint Conference of the European Society of International Law, the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights and the Ukrainian Association of International Law:

‘Post-Conflict Justice in Ukraine’

Kyiv

25-27 May 2017

Draft programme

Thursday 25 MAY

16:45 – 18:45	*Pre-conference event:* Screening of the Peabody Award-winning film: “Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa”	Opening remarks by Judge Ganna Yudkivska
18:00 – 19:00	*Philippe Sands:* Introductory talk on the book “East West Street” and the film “My Nazi Legacy” *Questions and Answers:* Philippe Sands, Judge Ganna Yudkivska, Judge Ksenija Turković, Arkadiy Bushchenko	Moderated by *Mykola Gnatovskyy*
19:00 – 20:30	*Screening of the film* *“My Nazi Legacy”*
20:30	*Cocktail (Dinner)*

Friday 26 MAY

9:00 – 9:30	*Opening ceremony:* (Video) Greeting by President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko *André Nollkaemper* (President of ESIL; University of Amsterdam) *Pavlo Klimkin* (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine) *Mary L. Yovanovitch* (the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USA to Ukraine) *Arkadiy Bushchenko* (Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union) *Ganna Yudkivska* (Judge, Section President of ECtHR, Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine) *Mykola Gnatovskyy* (President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
9:30 – 11:15	*Plenary Session: “Contemporary Challenges for Transitional Justice”*	Moderated by André Nollkaemper
	Taking stock of transitional justice: view by the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence	Pablo de Greiff (UN Special Rapporteur, New York University)
	Justice in conflict-affected situations -- changing and charging the narrative	Mark Kersten (London School of Economics)
	The Challenges of Transitional Justice during Conflict	Sarah Nouwen (University of Cambridge)
	Courting Failure: When are International Criminal Courts Likely to Be Believed by Local Audiences?	Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham)
10:15 – 11:45	*Coffee break*
11:45 – 13:15	*Parallel Workshops*
	*Workshop 1: “Can the International Criminal Court Play a Constructive Role for the Post-Conflict Settlement in Ukraine?”*	Moderated by Gleb Bogush
	What Can the International Criminal Court Do to Address the Conflict in Ukraine?	Iryna Marchuk
	The Eleventh Dimension of the International Criminal Courts: Collective Memory and Social Systems	Dmytro Koval
	How, When and Why: the ICC’s Competence to Review Completed Domestic Proceedings	Gaiane Nuridzhanian
	Acceptance of International Criminal Justice in Ukraine	Valentyna Polunina
	*Workshop 2:* *“A truth commission for Ukraine: Establishing the historical truth and fighting today’s propaganda?”*	Moderated by *Mark Kersten*
	Post-conflict justice in Ukraine: Between accountability and social reconstruction	Mindia Vashakmadze
	Turning to Truth: The Value of a Truth Commission in Ukraine’s Post-Conflict	Ilya Nuzov
	Ukrainian Memory Laws from the European Legal Perspective	Uladzislau Belavusau
	Truth Commissions and National NGOs: Establishing the Truth Together	Oleg Martynenko
	The philosophical foundations of transitional justice	Natalia Satokhina
13:15 – 14:15	*Lunch*
14:15 – 15:45	*Parallel Workshops*
	*Workshop 3:* *“Reparations for victims of the armed conflict”*	Moderated by Judge *Kseniya Turković*
	The Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of the Armed Conflict in Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities	Vito Todeschini
	International legal remedies for human rights violations on the Ukrainian territories outside the control of the Ukrainian authorities	Antal Berkes
	Post-Conflict Reparation: Ukrainian remedies of restitution of property in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights	Tetyana Antsupova
	The Question of Reparations for Damage Caused by the Armed Conflict in the East of Ukraine	Alla Blaga
	*Workshop 4:* *“Is there an existing model of post-conflict justice suitable for Ukraine? (Does the Anna Karenina principle apply to post-conflict justice?)”*	Moderated by Arkadiy Bushchenko
	Internationalized Justice in Ukraine	Eric A.Witte Christian De Vos
	Reassessing Vetting and the Judiciary – Some Reflections in the Light of the Ukrainian Model	Jacopo Roberti di Sarsina
	Transitional Justice for post-Putin Russia in the context of legal interests of Ukraine and other affected states	Nikolay Bobrinskiy
	Transitional Justice: Interplay of Stakeholders	Oleksii Plotnikov
	‘Specialist Chambers of Ukraine’ in The Hague; A suitable post-conflict judicial mechanism?	Michail Vagias
15:45 – 16:15	*Coffee break*

16:15 – 17:15	*Book presentation by Sergey Sayapin* *“The Situation in Ukraine since 2014: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, jus post bellum”*	Moderated by Judge Ksenia Turković
17:15 – 18:30	*Keynote lecture* by Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni *“The Future of Post-Conflict Justice in Light of Contemporary Low Level Conflicts and the Use of Automatic Weapons Systems” and Q&A session (Skype)*	Moderated by Judge Ganna Yudkivska and Marko Milanovic
19:00	*Dinner*
Saturday 27 MAY

9:30 – 11:00	*Plenary Session: “Positive obligations for the state under international criminal law”*	Moderated by Marko Milanovic
	Post-Conflict Justice – Experiences from the ICTR context	Erik Møse (Judge of the ECtHR, former President of ICTR)
	Fighting impunity for gross human rights violations in post-conflict societies – case law of the European Court of Human Rights	Kseniya Turković (Judge of the ECtHR, University of Zagreb)
	The role of parliaments in recognizing and preventing international crimes	Larissa van den Herik (Leiden University)
	National implementation of international criminal law: are Eastern European states able to prosecute international crimes?	Gleb Bogush (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
11:00 – 11:30	*Coffee break*
11:30 – 13:00	*Keynote lecture* by Judge Albie Sachs *“Meeting the Man Who Put the Bomb in my Car: Former Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs speaks about transitional justice in South Africa and Kenya”*	Moderated by Judge Ganna Yudkivska

13:00 –14:00	*Lunch*
14:00 – 15:30	*Workshop 5* *“Accountability for IHL violations”*	Moderated by Olga Butkevych
	Analysis of Accountability Standards Under International Humanitarian Law and Justice Mechanisms in the Government of Ukraine to Prosecute such Violations	Wayne Jordash
	The law and practice of negotiating justice after armed conflicts: A framework for post-conflict justice in eastern Ukraine?	Asli Ozcelik-Olcay
	Accountability for armed conflict violations through the lenses of cultural property	Kateryna Busol
	Total Impunity in the ATO Zone: Investigations into Illegal Detentions and Forced Labour	Nadia Volkova
	*Workshop 6* *“ECHR and other human rights bodies”*	Moderated by Maria Issaeva
	The role of international human rights mechanisms in securing post-conflict justice in relation to the Ukrainian conflict—extraterritoriality issues	Ralph Wilde
	The role of the ECHR and other human rights bodies during the Ukrainian conflict, its eventual settlement and aftermath	Lilian Apostol
	What impact the events in Crimea and Donbas might have on the ECtHR case-law under Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the ECHR	Ivan Lishchyna
	The Impact of European Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence concerning property rights on the rights of IDPs in Ukraine	Gulara Guliyeva
	Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law as part of the post-conflict legal framework: a tenable duo?	Alessandra La Vaccara
	Human Rights and Times of Crisis: Justice, Terror and the Political Psychology of the Body	John R. Morss
15:30 – 16:00	*Coffee break*

16:00 – 17:00

Debriefing on workshops and conclusions

Workshop 1: Gleb Bogush

Workshop 2: Mark Kersten

Workshop 3: Judge Ksenija Turković

Workshop 4: Arkadiy Bushchenko

Workshop 5: Olga Butkevych

Workshop 6: Maria Issaeva

Moderators: Mykola Gnatovskyy and Judge Ganna Yudkivska

17:00 – 17:30

Closing plenary session

Pavlo Petrenko (Minister of Justice of Ukraine)

Oleksandr Zadorozhniy (President of Ukrainian Society of International Law, IIR Taras Shevchenko National University)

Valeriia Lutkovska (Ukraine’s Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights)

Marko Milanovic

Arkadiy Bushchenko

Judge Ganna Yudkivska

Mykola Gnatovskyy

This event is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the framework of the Human Rights in Action Activity implemented by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union.

The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for 55 years. In Ukraine, USAID’s assistance focuses on three areas: Health and Social Transition, Economic Growth and Democracy and Governance. USAID has provided USD 1.8 bln. technical and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since 1992.

For additional information about USAID programs in Ukraine, please visit our website: http://ukraine.usaid.gov or our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/USAIDUkraine.