People(s) In Motion

Self Determination – Right to Secession?

International conference organized by ELDH together with the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast

Supported by Campaign against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)

This one day international conference, drawing together experts from Europe and beyond, will engage with the highly controversial issues surrounding the contemporary exercise of the right of peoples to self‐determination.

Documentation (with presentations as far as available)

Peoples in Motion: Self-determination and Secession

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Saturday 5 June 2010, 9am-6.15pm

Hilton Hotel (Lisburn Suite), Belfast

organizers:

  • European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) &
  • Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Supported by

  • Campaign against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)
  • Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

PROGRAMME

9.30am           Welcome & Opening of Conference by TJI and ELDH

10-11.30am    SESSION 1:  Current Trends in the Law on Self-Determination

Chair: Professor Colm Campbell (TJI, University of Ulster)

Professor Christine Bell (TJI, University of Ulster)

The New Law of Hybrid Self-Determination

Professor Bill Bowring (London)

Lenin and Self-Determination (Cardiff Paper)

Dr Ephraim Nimni (Queens University Belfast)

Democracy and National Self-Determination:  The crisis of theory and a difficult paradigm shift

11.30-12pm    Coffee break

12-1.15pm       SESSION 2: Self-Determination as a Legal Right: International Perspectives

Chair: Professor Bill Bowring

Professor Colm Campbell (TJI) & Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain (TJI)

Self-Determination, Transition and the Liberal Democratic State

Dr Vicki Sentas (King’s College London, CAMPACC)

The impact of ‘terrorist organization’ laws on diaspora claims for self-determination

2.15-3.45pm   SESSION 3: Round Table Discussion – 15 minute presentations, Q&A and discussion

Dr Haluk Gerger (Ankara)

<Turkish oppression from the view point of internal and external right to self-determination

Urko Aiartza (Basque Country)

Self-determination for the Basque People

Professor Herr Hèctor Lopez Bofill (Barcelona)

Secession in Western Europe

Professor Hassan Jouni (Lebanon)

Self-determination of the Palestine People (draft)

4.15-5.45pm   SESSION 4:  Fault-lines in the theory and practice of self-determination

Richard Harvey (Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, London)

The Right of the People of the Whole of Ireland to Self-Determination, Unity, Sovereignty and Independence

Dr Catriona Drew (SOAS)

Self-determination: The Hidden History of Population Transfer

Dr Fabio Marcelli (Rome)

Self-determination and indigenous people

Visvanathan Rudrakumaran (TGTE Interim Chief Executive)

Statement

5.45-6pm        Closing of Conference: closing speech by ELDH

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After the conference on Saturday evening:

Visit of the ‘Station Project’ which runs the old Queen St. RUC
station as an art gallery

http://www.stationproject.com/

Sunday 6 June, 9.30am: Political Tour for Speakers and Delegates:  Meeting Point: Divis Tower, bottom of Falls Road, 9.30am.

Shankill Road murals Tour guided by:

the Loyalist ex-prisoner group ‘EPIC’

http://www.epic.org.uk/news.htm

Falls Road murals Tour guided by

the Republican ex-prisoner group ‘Coiste na nIarchimi’

http://www.coiste.ie/

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German Press: JUNGE WELT

“Lenin in Belfast” (German original)

“Lenin in Belfast” (English translation)