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CONFERENCE AGENDA
The conference will be held at John L. Tishman Auditorium, New School University, 66 West 12th Street, New York City, with the exception of Session VI, which will be held in Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, between 13th and 14th Streets.
For speaker bios, click on the speaker's
name, or go to www.socres.org/justice/bios.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25th
Session
I. "Just and Unjust War"
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Speakers:
J.
Bryan Hehir, President,
Catholic Charities
Amb.
Richard Holbrooke, Former Permanent United States Representative
to the United Nations
Michael
Walzer, Author, Just
and Unjust Wars; Professor, School for Social Sciences, Institute for
Advanced Study
Moderator: Martin
Peretz, Chairman and Editor in Chief of the New Republic
Session
II. "The Training of the Military: National Law and Teaching the
Geneva Conventions"
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Col.
Charles Garraway, Directorate of Army Legal Services, Ministry
of Defence, Great Britain
Col.
Anthony E. Hartle, Professor of Philosophy and English,
United States Military Academy
Col.
Hays Parks, Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General
of the Army at the Pentagon
Moderator: Arthur
C. Helton, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, Council
on Foreign Relations
Session
III. Keynote Address: "Terrorism"
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Bob
Kerrey, President, New School University;
former United States Senator from Nebraska
FRIDAY, APRIL 26th
Session
IV. "International Law and Justice"
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Gary
Bass, Assistant Professor of Politics, Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Richard
J. Goldstone, Justice, South African Constitutional Court;
former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the former
Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Stephen
Holmes, Professor of Law, New York University
Moderator: Andrew
Arato, Hirshon Professor of Sociology, Graduate Faculty,
New School University
Session
V. "Punishment of War Crimes and Atrocities: International and National
Tribunals"
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Aryeh
Neier, President, Open Society Institute
Samantha
Power, Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights
Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Amb.
David Scheffer, Former Ambassador at Large for War Crimes
Issues
Patricia
Wald, Former Judge, International Criminal Court, The Hague
Moderator: Kenneth
Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights
Watch
Session
VI. "Defining and Responding to Terrorism"
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. *This
session will take place in Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue, between
13th and 14th Streets.
*This
session is now closed for pre-registration. Any seats still open
at 5:45 p.m. will be made available to the public, on a first-come, first-served
basis.
Speakers:
Philip
Gourevitch, Author and staff writer, New Yorker
Michael
Ignatieff, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Anatol
Lieven, Author and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace
David
Rieff, Journalist and Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute,
New School University
Moderator: Samantha
Power
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH
Session
VII. "Where Do We Go From Here? New and Emerging Issues in the Prosecution
of War Crimes and Acts of Terrorism: A Panel Discussion"
10:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Kenneth
Anderson, Prefessor of Law, Washington College of Law,
American University
Richard
J. Goldstone, Aryeh
Neier, Patricia
Wald, Michael
Walzer
Moderator:
Theodor
Meron, Denison Professor of Law, New
York University; American judge, United Nations War Crimes Tribunal, The
Hague