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)
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)
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’
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German Press: JUNGE WELT