GENOCIDE
CRIMES UNPUNISHED
LESSONS UNLEARNED

Friday, April 4 & Saturday, April 5, 2008
International House, University of Chicago

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SCHEDULE

Friday, April 4, 2008

Keynote (4 pm)
Ambassador Francis Deng, Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and Director of the SAIS Center for Displacement Studies; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary General for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

- Reception (6 pm)

Saturday, April 5, 2008

- Registration and Breakfast (8-9 am)

- Introduction (9:00-9:15 am)

Panel 1: Defining the "Crime without a Name" (9:15 - 10:45 am)
This panel will compare various instances of genocide and explore the possibility of developing models that can be used to prevent the occurrence of genocide.

• Marie Fleming, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
• Juan Mendez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, & former Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide
• Ervin Staub, Director Emeritus, Psychology of Peace and the Prevention of Violence, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Panel 2: Prevention and Response (11 am - 12:30 pm)
This panel will examine the response of home and international communities to acts of genocide. The panel will focus on a variety of responses including legal action, both national and international, social action, and memorialization. It will analyze how these various responses are used to try to stop genocide as it is occurring, restore justice, and prevent genocide in the future.

• Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies, New York University
• Gerald Gahima, Senior Justice Adviser, Australian Agency for International Development, East Timor; former Judge, Bosnia War Crimes Panel; former Vice President, Supreme Court of Rwanda
• Chuck Meyers, Senior Program Associate, Facing History and Ourselves
• Professor Kathleen Z. Young, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University

- Lunch (12:30 - 1:30 pm)

Panel 3: Confronting Darfur (1:30 - 3:00 pm)
This panel will address the conflict in the Darfur region of The Sudan and the allegations of genocide; the adequacy of the international response to the crises and proffer solutions to end the conflict.

• Vincent O. Nmehielle, Principal Defender of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Law, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Samuel Totten, Senior Researcher (Fulbright Scholar), National University of Rwanda; Genocide Scholar, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Ambassador David Scheffer, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law, Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago; former U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Issues

- Concluding Remarks (3:00 - 3:15 pm)

Teacher Training Workshop: Teaching Genocide (3:15 PM - 4:15 PM)

• Chuck Meyers, Senior Program Associate, Facing History and Ourselves