Registration (9:00-9:30 am)

 

Panel 1: Peace Processes & Transitional Justice (9:30-10:45 am)

Chair: Paul Gready, Director, Centre for Applied Human Rights

Shaping the Debate: Academia, Policy Advice and Transitional Justice during the Ugandan Peace Talks

Phil Clark, Research Fellow in Courts and Public Policy, University of Oxford

Promoting Accountability after Kenya's Post-Election Violence

Kenyan Human Rights Defender, Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights.

 

Tea (10:45-11:00 am)

 

Panel 2: Peace Processes & Civil Society Actors (11:00 am – 12:00 pm)

Chair: Martin Jones, Lecturer, Centre for Applied Human Rights

Bringing the Outsiders in from the Margins: Reflections on Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Brian Phillips, Independent human rights consultant

National Human Rights Institutions and Peace Processes

Michelle Parleviet, Independent human rights consultant

 

Panel 3: Human Rights Defenders & Peace Processes (12:00–1:00 pm)

Chair: Lena Barrett, Protective Awards Scheme Manager, Centre for Applied Human Rights

Challenges and Opportunities for Defenders in Palestine and Sudan

Andrew Anderson, Deputy Director, Front Line Defenders

Protecting Defenders in Nepal

Beate Arnold, Former Human Rights Field Officer, Peace Brigades International

 

Lunch (1:00-1:45pm)

 

Keynote Speaker (1:45-2:45pm)

Juan E. Méndez, President Emeritus, International Center for Transitional Justice

 

Panel 4: Colombia (2:45-4:15pm)

Chair: Lars Waldorf, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Human Rights & York Law School

Climate of Fear: Campaigning for the Protection of Defenders

Louise Winstanley, Programme and Advocacy Manager, ABColombia

The Role of the Inter-American Commission and Court in Protecting Human Rights Defenders  

Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study

The International Criminal Court, the Justice and Peace Law, and Human Rights Defenders

Clara Sandoval, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, University of Essex

If you would like to register for this conference please complete the registration form (Word/Pdf) and post or email to Judith Pink, Centre for Applied Human Rights, Sally Baldwin Buildings Block D, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, cahr@york.ac.uk .

If you have any queries please contact cahr@york.ac.uk or telephone 01904 434398

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