Looking from the Outside In: Evaluating IHL from Other Normative Perspectives
The 16th Annual Minerva Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
Looking from the Outside In: Evaluating IHL from Other Normative Perspectives
An on-line international Conference, November 8-10, 2021
(Times noted are local Israel time – GMT+2)
Day 1 / Monday, November 8
16:15-16:30 Opening
Greetings: Mr. Danny Evron / Executive Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Introduction: Prof. Yuval Shany / Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Conference Committee Chair
16:30-17:30 Session 1 / Keynote Lecture: Naz Modirzadeh
Speaker: Prof. Naz Modirzadeh / Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School; founding Director of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict
Passion and International Law of War
Commentators: Adv. Stéphane Ojeda / Head of Legal Department, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories
Colonel (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch / Senior Research Associate and Head of the Program on Law and National Security, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel
17:45-18:45 Session 2 / Regulating War: Emotions, Values, Virtues
Speakers: Prof. Emiliano Buis / University of Buenos Aires Law School and Central University of Azul, Argentina
International humanitarian law and emotional normativity: evaluating the limits of legal rationalism
Dr. Maria Varaki / War Studies Department, King’s College London
Teaching IHL with Camus’ moderation
Commentator: Prof. Anne Saab / Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
19:00-20:00 Session 3 / Dealing with the Slippery Slope of Force Use
Speakers: Dr. Erameh Nicholas Idris / Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Studies and International Relations, North-West University, South Africa
The Nigeria military, politics of human rights, and the management of the Boko Haram crisis
Dr. Mateusz Piątkowski / Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz
Air bombardments during World War Two: The non-healing wound – a clash of ius in bello and historical perspectives
Commentator: Adv. Miya Keren-Abraham / Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories
Day 2 / Tuesday, November 9
16:30-17:30 Session 4 / A Mediated Look at Conflict Situations
Speakers: Dr. Shiri Krebs / Faculty of Law, Deakin University
Show justice: IHL’s data practices and the bureaucracy of killing
Ms. Shelly Pasternak / PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Blinded by humanitarianism
Commentator: Dr. Renana Keydar / Faculty of Law and Digital Humanities Program, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
17:45-18:45 Session 5 / Using Historical Analogies: Systemic Discrimination and Apartheid
Speakers: Dr. Eitan Diamond / Manager and Senior Legal Expert, Diakonia IHL Center, Jerusalem
Contending with systemic discrimination in Israel-Palestine: is IHL up to the task?
Ms. Anne Herzberg / Institute for NGO Research, Israel
Mr. Joshua Kern / 9 Bedford Row, London
Old wine for a new bottle? The apartheid narrative and ‘prolonged occupation’
Commentator: Prof. David Kretzmer / Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
19:00-20:00 Session 6 / Book Launch – Samuel Moyn’s “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War” (2021)
Speakers: Prof. Samuel Moyn / Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School; Professor of History, Yale University
Prof. Gabriella Blum / Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law School
Prof. Yishai Beer / Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)
Chair: Prof. Tomer Broude / Faculty of Law and Dept. of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Day 3 / Wednesday, November 10
16:30-17:30 Session 7 / Human Rights to the Rescue?
Speakers: Dr. Charuka Ekanayake / State Counsel, Attorney General’s Department, Sri Lanka; Adjunct Research Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University, Australia
How international human rights law can solve moral-legal dilemmas pertaining to targeting during armed conflict
Ms. Sally Longworth / PhD candidate, Department of Law, Stockholm University
The right to freedom of expression as an interpretive source for IHL norms
Commentator: Prof. Yuval Shany / Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
17:45-18:45 Session 8 / The Ethical Dimensions of IHL
Speakers: Prof. Thomas Burri / Professor of international law and European law, University of St. Gallen
Lessons from the ethical assessment of autonomous disaster relief and weapons systems
Mr. Steven Van De Put / PhD candidate, Maastricht University; Researcher, Netherlands Defence Academy
The role of human rights law as mediating between IHL and morality
Commentator: Prof. Gloria Gaggioli / Director, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
19:00-20:00 Session 9 / Closing Lecture: Helen Durham
Speaker: Dr. Helen Durham / Director of International Law and Policy, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva
From zombies to Game of Thrones: IHL, fairytales and our collective survival
Commentator: Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky / Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
The symposium will be held via Zoom.
The number of places is limited. Registration is required.
Please register here:
https://huji.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YAo-qgpgS1qUHeiYJSW4Ag
Registrants will receive a participation link by e-mail on the day of the event.
For additional information: mchr@savion.huji.ac.il