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 Wednesday, 17 March
Public Panel Debate
How to Deal with Crimes Against Humanity
at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS) from
15.15 to approx. 17 hrs.
Venue: Thunbergssalen, Linneanum, Thunbergsv. 2, Uppsala.
Panelists
Prof. Göran Bexell, former Rector of Lund University and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (moderator);
Hans Corell, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs;
Elinor Hammarskjöld, Head of Department for International Law, Human Rights and Treaty Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs;
Prof. Hans Joas, Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought, University of Chicago;
Alex Obote-Odora, Chief (Director) of the Appeals and Legal Advisory Division at the Office of the Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha;
Prof. William Schabas, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland.
Welcoming remarks by Prof. Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
Closing Remarks by Henning Melber, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.
The panel debate will be followed by an informal reception.
No pre-registration is needed for the panel debate.
The event is organised in collaboration with the Hugo Valentin Centre and the Swedish Institute of International Law at Uppsala University in connection with the 8th Annual Hugo Valentin Lecture presented on 16th March at 19.15 hrs by Prof. William Schabas in Uppsala University’s main building.
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