Contacts:
Gloria Gottschalk, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 239
[email protected]
Lauren Erlichman, New School University
212-229-5667, ext. 215
[email protected]
"INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE, WAR CRIMES AND TERRORISM: THE
U.S. RECORD"
TOPIC OF MAJOR CONFERENCE AT
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY ON APRIL 25-27, 2002
BOB KERREY, FORMER U.S. SENATOR AND PRESIDENT OF NEW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY, TO GIVE KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON APRIL 25
Speakers include Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Former U.S.
Representative
to the United Nations; Justice Richard Goldstone, Chief Prosecutor
for International Criminal Court for Rwanda; and many other distinguished speakers
For most New Yorkers, the question of international justice has
never been so close to home as in the months since the September 11th terror
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But for faculty and students
at the New School University in Greenwich Village, whose Graduate Faculty was
founded by scholars rescued from the atrocities of Nazi Germany, issues of international
justice and human rights have always been in sharp focus.
"International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism: The U.S.
Record", an upcoming three-day conference at the New School University,
places the September 11th terror attacks in a global and historical context.
Speakers will address events in Vietnam, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, New York, and
other locations, discussing how the national and international community, including
the United States, responded to terrorism in their own and other countries,
through legal, political, military, and other means.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, has been
organized by Professor Arien Mack, Editor of Social Research journal,
and others at the Graduate Faculty. New School University President and former
U.S. Senator, Bob Kerrey, will deliver the keynote address on April 25
at 6:00 PM. The conference opens on Thursday morning, April 25 with remarks
by Dr. Mack and Kenneth Prewitt, Dean of the Graduate Faculty and former
Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. It will run through Saturday morning, April
27 and will take place at the New School University's Tishman Auditorium, 66
West 12th Street, New York, NY.
For further information or reservations, call 212-229-2488
or visit the conference web site at www.socres.org.
"We are defining terrorism as acts of violence against innocent
civilians, which may or may not be part of an officially declared war,"
said Dr. Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology at the
Graduate Faculty and director of the Social Research conference series.
"The conference presents a wide-angle view on how war crimes,
terrorism and other atrocities are and ought to be dealt with, and reinforces
the University's commitment to advancing the possibility of global justice and
the protection of human rights."
"The events of September 11th have made it painfully clear
that we must continue building a global system of justice in which war crimes
and acts of terrorism will be prosecuted by a variety of international and national
jurisdictions," Dr. Mack said. "The United States has already made
important contributions to this effort, beginning with the Nuremberg Trials
and the drafting of the Geneva Conventions. Now more than ever it is essential
that we continue our involvement in shaping international agreements on international
justice and human rights."
In addition to Senator Kerrey, the three-day conference will bring
together leading scholars and policy makers, including Ambassador Richard
Holbrooke, former United States Representative to the United Nations, Clinton
Administration; Philip Gourevitch, staff writer at the New Yorker;
Justice Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations
International Criminal Court for Rwanda; Theodor Meron, U.S. Justice
at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague; Stephen Holmes,
Professor of Law, New York University; Michael Ignatieff, Director of
the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University's Kennedy School
of Government; Michael Walzer, author of Just and Unjust Wars,
and many other notable speakers.
Conference panels will address topics including "Just and Unjust War," "The Training of the Military: National Law and Teaching the Geneva Conventions," "International Law and Justice," "Punishment of War Crimes and Atrocities: International and National Tribunals," "Defining and Responding to Terrorism," and "Where Do We Go From Here? New and Emerging Issues in the Prosecution of War Crimes and Acts of Terrorism." Each panel will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
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