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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

22-23 October 2009

Conference: Maastricht Centre for Human Rights

‘Corruption and Human Rights’  

Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Deadline papers: 15 April 2009

Website: http://www.unimaas.nl/default.asp?template=werkveld.htm&id=TE12QN4K7A0F30K64511&taal=en

 

22-23 October 2009

Conference: International interdisciplinary conference on rehabilitation and reintegration of war-affected children (RRWAC)

Royal Flemish Academy for Science and the Arts

Brussels, Belgium

Deadline papers: 30 April 2009

Website: www.rrwac.be

 

4-7 November 2009

Conference: American Society of Criminology

Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Website: http://www.asc41.com/annualmeeting.htm

 

26-28 January 2010

Conference and Workshop: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies
Holocaust Studies Program

Western Galilee College

Acco (Acre), Israel

Website: http://britishjewishstudies.org/2009/06/10/cfp-the-future-of-holocaust-testimonies-an-international-conference-and-workshop-acco-israel/

 

17-20 February 2010

Conference: International Studies Association, 51st Annual Convention

Theme: Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners

New Orleans, USA

Deadline: 1 June 2009

Website: http://isanet.ccit.arizona.edu/MyISA/NewOrleans2010.aspx

25-27 August 2010

Conference: War and Self-Defence

University of Sheffield

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/warconference.html

 

17-21 September 2010

Conference: International Peace & Reconciliation Conference

Africa Youth Ministries

Kampala, Uganda

Deadline for papers: 26 March 2010

Website: http://www.aymu.org

 

PAST EVENTS

 

Organized or co-organized by us

2 Sept. 2005

Official launch platform and website at workshop of the ESC Conference

 

2 Sept. 2005

Workshop: criminology and international crimes at the ESC Conference

Chair: Henk van de Bunt (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Papers: Alette Smeulers (Maastricht University, the Netherlands): a typology of perpetrators of international crimes.Uwe Ewald (Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany): International Evidentiary Process and Truth Finding – The Judicial Re-Construction of War Crimes

Discussant: Dirk van Zyl Smit - UCT South Africa

 

23  June  2006

Research seminar ‘A criminological approach to international crimes and other gross human rights violations’ in cooperation  with the school of human rights research. (Maastricht University)

Including a lecture by Albie Sachs, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Gross Human Rights Violations in South Africa from the perspectives of the perpetrator, victim and bystander.

 

28 August 2006

Workshop: criminology and gross human rights violations

Chair: Catrien Bijleveld (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Paper presentations: Catrien Bijleveld (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - Victimization of large scale human rights abuses: two case studies from southern Sudan and Rwanda. Roland Moerland (Maastricht University, the Netherlands): Crimes against humanity and genocide: a criminological approach. Alette Smeulers (Maastricht University, the Netherlands): the banality of evil revisited.

 

28 August 2006           

Workshop: Applied Criminology in international criminal justice

Chair: Uwe Ewald (ICTY, the Hague, the Netherlands)

Papers: Uwe Ewald (ICTY, the Hague, the Netherlands): standards of proof and reliability large scale victimization in international criminal justice. Boris Mijatovic (University of Kassel, Germany): Statistical methods in international criminal justice. Phillip Verwimp (Institute of Social studies): distinguishing genocide from other crimes. Nancy Grosselfinger (International League for human rights): Understanding crime the European approach to the correctional management of the international war criminals of the ICTY.

 

12-15 April 2007

Expert-meeting: Towards a criminology of international crimes

Expert Meeting co-sponsored by the Center of Human Rights of Maastricht University, the Dutch Scientifc Organisation and VU University Amsterdam. Speakers in alphabetical order: Xabier Agirre, Alexander Alvarez, Jennifer Balint, Gregg Barak, Catrien Bijleveld, Uwe Ewald, David Friedrichs, Fred Grünfeld, Roelof Haveman, Martha Huggins, Wim Huisman, David Kauzlarich, Wayne Morrison, Stephan Parmentier, Dawn Rothe, Elies van Sliedregt, Alette Smeulers, Elmar Weitekamp.

The conference book will be published by Intersentia.

 

14 June 2007

Workshop NVK – Conference: International crimes (in dutch)

Chair: Alette Smeulers (VU University, Amsterdam)

Papers: Catrien Bijleveld (VU University Amsterdam) gauging the damage; Alette Smeulers (VU University) – perpetrators compared; Frederiek de Vlaming (UvA): prosecution policy ICTY; Miranda Boone (Utrecht University): legitimacy and efficiency international criminal tribunals

 

26-29 Sept. 2007

 

 

Workshops ESC Conference:

(1) Three dimensions of supranational criminology

Chair: Wim Huisman (VU University Amsterdam)

Papers: Nicholas Dorn (University of Cardiff and Erasmus University) multi-source governance and dynamics of glbal administrative and criminal law, some general and Balkan reference points; Michael Welch (Rutgers University) Militarizing the economy of penal power: unlawful enemy combatants in the war on terror; Dina Siegel (VU University Amsterdam) Conflict diamonds – the role of the NGOs and the Kimberley process; Wim Huisman (VU University Amsterdam) Corporations and international crimes – a criminological analysis of illegal trade in chemicals and natural resources.

 

(2) International crimes – perpetrators and victims

Chair: Alette Smeulers (VU University Amsterdam)

Papers: Samuel Tanner (University of Montreal), Joining mass crime: experiences and trajectories of four Serbian Perpetrators in the recent Yugoslav war; Alette Smeulers (VU University Amsterdam) and Tom van de Laar; Perpetrators in former Yugoslavia; Catrien Bijleveld (VU University Amsterdam) Methodological issues in the study of perpetrators and victims of international crimes.

 

22 January 2008

Guest Lecture: Philip Verwimp

Theme: economic profile of perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide

VU University Amsterdam,

Room: 5A-06, Time: 15.30-17.30

 

18-21 June 2009

Expert meeting: Collective violence and international criminal justice-  an interdisciplinary approach

Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Speakers in alphabetical order: Xabier Agirre, Kai Ambos, Morten Bergsmo, Catrien Bijleveld, Athanasios Chouliara, Donald Foster, Larissa van den Herik, Barbora Holá, Amelia Hoover, Morrison, Howard QC, Salim Nakhjavani, Sarah Nouwen, Mark J. Osiel, Stephan Parmentier, Leila Sadat, Michael Scharf, Elies van Sliedregt, Alette Smeulers, Wouter Werner, Martin Witteveen, Elisabeth Wood.

The conference book will be published by Intersentia.