Read in Ukrainian
Join the webinar about prosecution of international crimes and peace processes! Our understanding of and international law on the duty to act upon atrocity crimes have matured significantly in the recent decades. Treaty and customary international law supports amnesties to end hostilities. However, only narrow amnesties, applicable to sedition rather than commission of international crimes, are allowed.
Questions for discussion:
- How has the practice of amnesties in armed conflicts and atrocity situations evolved globally?
- How, if at all, might a peace treaty deal on non-prosecuting international crimes impact the workings of the ICC in a respective situation?
- How has the connection between the duty to prosecute international crimes and the right to truth evolved? What tangible impacts has it had in practice, for affected communities?
- How is the duty to prosecute connected with an obligation to pay reparations – interstates ones and those owed to victims and survivors?
- Given the number of armed conflicts globally and proposals to cede justice for a ceasefire, where does the concept of prevention stand nowadays?
Speakers:
- Juan Méndez, Professor of Human Rights Law, American University – Washington College of Law; first UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide; former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Anna Myriam Roccatello, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Programs, International Center for Transitional Justice
- René Fernando Urueña Hernández, Professor of International Law, University of Los Andes; Special Adviser on Complementarity to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
- Maksym Vishchyk, Legal Advisor, International Law Research Coordinator and Deputy Mobile Justice Team Lead, Global Rights Compliance; Senior Lecturer, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Moderators:
- Kateryna Busol, Legal Advisor, International Center for Transitional Justice
- Inna Liniova, Director of the Human Rights Institute, Ukrainian Bar Association
Co-organizers:
- Human Rights Institute of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBAHRI),
- International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ),
- National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,
- Truth Hounds
