Dear friends,
the following is a second draft agenda for the International Conference on the PICC that the committee "There is No Peace Without Justice" has to organize next September. Starting from the first draft - to which regrettably only a few of the users of this sector reacted - I added many names as possible speakers, trying to include the representatives of many relevant International institutions and competent NGOs since I believe that we should get the widest possible support for our campaign.
After two telephone conversations with Gianfranco Dell'Alba, I wrote Barcelona as the most likely town where the Conference may take place, and a Friday and a Saturday as the most profitable days. Actually, it will probably be better to convene one day before and to hold on thursday afternoon the opening session. As for the date, I propose the last week-end of September.
Of course, much will depend on the funds that we are waiting for. As treasurer of the Committee, I would be glad to know as soon as possible any piece of news about.
I am going to meet with Giandonato Caggiano - probably next monday - in order to discuss this second draft as well as the preparation of the first issue of the Committee's bullettin. Once more, I would greatly appreciate any comments and suggestions.
International Conference
Toward the Establishing
of a Permanent International Criminal Court
(Thursday, 28 -) Friday, 29 - Saturday, 30 September 1995
Barcelona, Spain
SESSIONS
- Security Council and Jurisdiction of the Permanent International Criminal Court.
- Problems of Enforcement: Legal Assistance, Surrender of Persons, Transfer and Enforcement of Sentences.
- International Criminal Justice and Impunity.
- International Investigating War Crimes Commissions (1912-1994).
- "Opting In / Opting Out" approach.
- Matters of the Jurisdiction of the PICC: Genocide, Aggression, Serious Violation of Rules Applicable in Armed Conflicts, Crimes Against Humanity, Apartheid, Torture, Hostage Taking, Seizure of Aircrafts, Illicit Drugs Traffic, Terrorism.
RAPPORTEURS AND INTERVENTORS
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Antonio Cassese, President, International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
XXX, President, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Richard Goldstone, Justice, Prosecutor, ICTFY
Emma Bonino, EU Commissioner
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MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Ernesto Caccavale
Gianfranco Dell'Alba
Jean François Hory
Bernard Kouchner
Jose' Maria Mendiluce
Marco Pannella
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MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS
Parliamentarians for Global Action:
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Italy:
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USA:
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Russia:
Valery V. Borshev
Segey A. Kovaliov
United Kingdom:
Lord Eric Avebury
France:
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Germany:
Uli Fisher
Japan:
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Bosnia:
POLITICAL PARTIES, NGOs
Giandonato Caggiano, SIOI, Italy - President, "No Peace Without Justice"
Adama Dieng, secretary general, Centre for Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Janelle Diller, International Human Rights Law Group
Olivier Dupuis, secretary, Radical Party
Stefanie Grant, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
David Krieger, president, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Aryeh Neyer, president, Open Society Fund
Yuri Orlov, honorary president, International Helsinki Federation - Cornell University, USA
Jerome J. Shestak, chairman, International Bar Association's Committee for Human Rights and a Just Rule of Law
Joanna Weshler, representative to the United Nations, Human Rights Watch
Mark S. Zaid, chairman of the American Bar Association's Task Force on the Proposed Protocol of Evidence and Procedure for Future War Crimes Tribunals
....... ......., Amnesty International
....... ......., Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme
....... ......., ELSA (European Law Students' Association)
EXPERTS
Mariano Aguirre, CIP, Madrid, Spain
Daniela Archibugi, CNR/ISRDS, Rome, Italy
Cherif Bassiouni, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
Luigi Bonanate, University of Turin, Italy
James Crawford, Jesus College, Cambridge, Great Britain
David Held, Open University, Milton Kaines, Great Britain
Richard Falk, Princeton University, USA
Luigi Ferrajoli, University of Camerino, Italy
Nils Petter Gleditsch, IPRI, Oslo, Norway
Pierre Hassner, CERI, Paris, France
Mary Kaldor, European Institute, Sussex, Great Britain
Hans Kochler, Universitat Innsbruck, Austria
Ekkehart Krippendorff, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Leibfried, Universitat Bremen, Germany
Andrew Linklater, Keele University, Great Britain
Alberto Piris, CIP, Madrid, Spain
Ulrich Preuss, Universitat Bremen, Germany
Gwyn Prins, University of Cambridge, Great Britain
François Rigaux, Universitè Catholique, Brussels, Belgium
Paolo Ungari, LUISS, Italy
OTHER PERSONALITIES
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize laureate for Literature
Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize laureate for Medicine
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize laureate for Peace
Furio Colombo, journalist, Columbia University
Ralph Dahrendorf, rector, St. Antony College, Oxford, Great Britain
Marek Halter, writer - founder of S.O.S. Racisme
Fernando Savater, philosopher
Shimon Wiesenthal, director, Documental Center on War Crimes
THE OPENING SESSION should include speeches by the mayor of Barcelona, a representative of the Spanish government, a representative of the Parliament, the rector of the Barcelona University.