28th April: LSE Conference on Decades of State-sponsored Destruction of Myanmar’s Rohingya
London School of Economics Conference
on
Decades of State-sponsored Destruction
of Myanmar’s Rohingya
of Myanmar’s Rohingya
28 April 2014
A LSE Public Event
co-sponsored by
LSE Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit
&
Burmese Rohingya Organization – United Kingdom
Venue: THE SHAW LIBRARY (Founders Room), 6th Floor, Old Building, LSE
To RSVP please email: m.zarni@lse.ac.uk or brorg.london@gmail.com, or text 0788 871 4866 (UK)
PROGRAMME
0830 Registration/coffee
0900 Welcome Remarks
Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond, OBE
Founding Director, Refugee Studies Centre; Professor Emeritus, Oxford University & Director, Fahamu Refugee Programme
0910 An Appeal to the World
Tun Khin, President, Burmese Rohingya Organization – UK
0920 Keynote Address
Surviving Rwanda genocide: A first-hand experience
Prudentienne Seward, 1994 Rwanda Genocide Survivor and Activist; Founder, PAX
0935 MORNING PLENARY SESSION I
Chair:
Dr Maung Zarni
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Democracy and Elections, University of Malaya; Visiting Fellow (2013-15), Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE & Judge, Permanent People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka (Germany, 2013)
What is a genocide? Who decides?
Professor Daniel Feierstein
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; Director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero; Professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires & author of “Genocide as a Social Practice: Reorganizing Society Under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas” (2014)
International Human Rights Law and Mechanisms for the Pursuit of Justice
Professor Gabriele Della Morte
Professor of International Law at the Università Cattolica di Milano; Counsel for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (2003-2004); Law Clerk for the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2000) & a member of a government delegation for the establishment of the International Criminal Court (1998)
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal: one model for a combined national and international judicial mechanism
Dr Helen Jarvis
Formerly Chief of Public Affairs of the Cambodian Tribunal; Documentation Consultant for Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program & co-author of "Getting away with genocide? Elusive justice and the Khmer Rouge tribunal" (Pluto, 2004)
The Russell-Sartre Tribunal and other alternative routes to international justice
Professor Gianni Tognoni
General Secretary, Permanent People’s Tribunal, Rome
1100 Refreshments
1115 MORNING PLENARY SESSION II
Chair: Arash Sedighi
Teaching Fellow, The Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Defenseless Rohingya and their Protection
Nurul Islam
Chairman, Arakan Rohingya National Organization
Bangladesh Government policies and the Situation of the Rohingya Refugees
Dr Shapan Adnan
Associate, Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, Oxford University &
Former Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
The Slow-Burning Genocide of the Rohingya
Dr Maung Zarni
Co-author of “The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya”, Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, (Forthcoming, Spring 2014)
Mass Violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and State Persecution of Muslim Rohingya
Kyaw Win, Burmese Muslim Association, UK
12:45 Lunch
1330 AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLE:
The State in Myanmar and Its Crimes
Chair: Dr Kirsten McConnachie
Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
The State in Myanmar and Its Crimes
Professor Penny Green
Professor of Law and Criminology, Head of Research in the Dickson Poon School of Law & Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), King’s College, University of London
Mapping and Tracking the Persecution of Rohingya
Christopher Tuckwood
Director, The Sentinel Project for the Prevention of Genocide, Canada
Marching to Genocide in Burma
Tom Andrews, former US Congressman & President of United to End Genocide (UEG), Washington, DC [or Daniel Sullivan, UEG and co-author of the report “Marching to Genocide in Burma”, (March 2014)]
Mass Atrocities and How They End: preliminary findings from high intensity cases of mass killings
Professor Bridget Conley (via Skype)
Assistant Professor of Research, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston & formerly Director of Research, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
1500 RECEPTION
1545 Facilitated discussion (Invitation Only)
What needs to be done?
Co-conveners:
Dr Zarni, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE & Centre for Democracy and Elections, University of Malaya
Tun Khin, President, Burmese Rohingya Organization-UK (BROUK)
1645 Conference ends
THE CONFERENCE IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY, USA, JUSTCE FOR ALL AND BURMA TASK FORCE, BURMESE ROHINGYA ORGANIZATION OF UK AND INDIVIDUAL DONORS
