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Start Date & Time
November 14, 2006
All day event.

End Date & Time
November 14, 2006
All day event.

Location
Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Golden Room
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Event Cost
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RSVP Info
Name: Secretariat
Phone: +386 1 420 31 13
E-mail: pf-dekanat@pf.uni-lj.si

Categories
Human Rights
Peace & Conflict

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PROGRAMME


8.30-9.00 Registration


9.00-10.15 Opening

9.00 Welcome by prof. dr. Rajko Pirnat, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

9.05 Tribute to prof. dr. Ivan Tomšič
Prof. dr. Danilo Türk, Vice-Dean and Head of the Chair of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana

9.40 140 Years of the Slovenian Red Cross
Prim. Janez Remškar, President of the Slovenian Red Cross

9.50 Welcome and Opening address
ICRC


10.15-11.15 Panel I: Customary International Humanitarian Law

Chair: Prof. Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza, Vice-President of the Polish Red Cross (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law)

Presenter:

»The Role of Customary Rules and Principles in Contemporary Armed Conflicts« (Prof. Ryszard Piotrowicz, Department of Law, University of Wales)

Commentator(s): Ms. Beatrice Onica-Jarka, Nicolea Titulescu University, FoL
Ms. Veronika Bilkova, Charles University

Debate


11.15-11.30 Coffee break


11.30-12.30 Panel II: Combatant Status and Protection of Prisoners of War

Chair: Professor Emeritus dr. Borut Bohte, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law

Presenter:

»The role of the courts in identifying the status of combatants« (Nobuo Hayashi, Legal Advisor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo Law Faculty)

Commentator(s): Mr. Marcin Marcinko, Jagiellonian University, FoL
Ms. Joanna Nowakowska-Malusecka, University of Silezia, FoL

Debate


12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Panel III: Protection of civilian persons

Chair: prof. dr. Mirjam Škrk, Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia

Presenter:

»Selected Issues Affecting Civilian Population in Armed Conflicts of Our Time« (Bruno Demeyere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute for International Law)

Commentator(s): Mr. René Värk, Law Institute of the University of Tartu,
Prof. Evhen Tsybulenko, Concordia Audentes University,
Mr. Piotr Lubinski, Jagiellonian University

Debate

14.30-15.30 Panel IV: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and International Humanitarian Law

Chair: Prof. Ivan Simonovic, Vice-Dean, University of Zagreb, FoL

Presenter:

»Evolution of peacekeeping and responsibilities of peacekeepers« (Dr. Fred Tanner, Deputy Director, The Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Commentator(s): Mr. Rain Liivoja, Law Institute of University of Tartu
Ms. Eszter Kirs, University of Miskolc, FoL

Debate


15.30-15.45 Coffee break




15.45-16.45 Panel V: Cruel and Indiscriminate Weapons: 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its Additional Protocols

Chair: Ms. Vasilka Sancin, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law

Presenter:

»Compliance with the Convention and its Protocols and their Scope of Application« (Geregely Toth, ICRC Budapest)


Commentators: Mr. Jiri Fuchs, Defence University, Brno
Mr. Tamás Lattmann, Hungarian Nat'l. Defence Uni.

Debate


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