Specialist conference
Details
Moderation: Gisela Elsner, KAS-Representative Rule-of-Law Programme Latin America
08.30 h Registration of participants
09.00 h Welcome remarks by Andrea E. Ostheimer de Sosa
09.15 h The Kampala Review conference and its stock-taking exercise – Where do we stand?
Esteban Peralta- Losilla, Chief Counsel Support Section, International Criminal Court Salvador Herencia, Advocate, Peru
Betty Bigombe, Peace Negotiator LRA, Uganda
09.45 h Challenges for national justice systems in Latin America – how to comply with international obligations?
Ezequiel Malarino, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires/Argentina
Héctor Olásolo, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
10.15 h Challenges for national justice in situation and non-situation countries – the need for internal reform and external support
Carine Bapita Buyangandu, Victim Defence Lubanga Trial, The Hague, The Netherlands
Lievin Ngondji Ongombe Taluhata, President of the Association ‘Culture for Freedom and Justice’, Kinshasa, RD Congo
Henry Onoria, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Makerere University
Chacha Bhoke Murungu, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
11.30 h Discussion
12. 00 h Lunch at the restaurant ‘New Concept’ at the Residence Palace
13.00 h How to strengthen the rule-of-law in developing countries in order to ensure compliance with the Rome Statute?
Moderation: Kai Ambos, Professor, University of Göttingen
Panel: Francisco Javier Donde, Senior Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales (México)
José Luis Guzmán, Professor, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Xavier-Jean Keita, Principal Counsel, Office of Public Counsel for Defence, ICC
Bonita Meyersfeld, Wits School of Law, Centre for Applied Legal Studies
Wilfred Nderitu, Lead Defence Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Nairobi, Kenya
14.00 h Discussion
15.00 h Summary and closing remarks
15.30 h Coffee, Tea and Cake at the Residence Palace
