Presentation of the results of the project

International Justice for the Communist Crimes

Room JAN6Q2

 

REGISTRATION FORM

NEW: extended registration deadline: 22 May 2015 at 11.00 a.m.

 

PROGRAMME:

            Moderator: Göran Lindblad, President, Platform of European Memory and Conscience

• 15.00 – 15.10
  Introduction
  Sandra Kalniete, MEP,  Vice-Chair of the Group of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament

• 15.10 – 15.30
  Results of the project “International Justice for the Communist Crimes“
  Dr. Neela Winkelmann, Managing Director, Platform of European Memory and Conscience, Prague, Czech Republic

• 15.30 – 15.45
  Obligation of states to investigate and prosecute Communist crimes under international law
  Dr. Nika Bruskina, Institute of International and European Union Law at the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University, Lithuania

• 15.45 – 16.00
  Modes of perpetration
  Prof. Dr. Frank Meyer, Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Law Procedure Including International Criminal Law, University of Zürich, Switzerland

• 16.00 – 16.15
  Protecting human dignity in transitional justice processes in Central and Eastern European countries
  Doc. Dr. Jernej Letnar Černič, Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law, Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Kranj, Slovenia

• 16.15 – 16.30
  Transnational responsibility for the prosecution and prevention of international crimes
  Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Albin Eser, M.C.J., Director Emeritus, Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany;  former Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague

• 16.30 – 16.45
  Discussion

• 16.45 – 17.00
  Break – installation of film screen

• 17.00 – 17.55
  Screening of documentary film “Justice 2.0“ and YouTube video clip
  Stefan Weinert, award-winning film director, Berlin, Germany

• 17.55 – 18.00
  Concluding remarks
  Göran Lindblad, President, Platform of European Memory and Conscience, Göteborg, Sweden