Personne et discrimination: perspectives historiques et compar茅es de Marie Mercat-Bruns, Val茅rie Doumeng et Jean-Fran莽ois Niort
Objet : Colloque de lancement de livre
Lieu : Facult茅 de droit de l'Universit茅 平特五不中, salle 脿 confirmer
Date : mardi 27 juin 2006, de 9 h 脿 12 h
Le Centre de recherche en droit priv茅 et compar茅 du Qu茅bec et le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique vous invitent au colloque de lancement du livre Personne et discrimination: perspectives historiques et compar茅es, paru en janvier chez Dalloz sous la direction de Marie Mercat-Bruns, ma卯tre de conf茅rences 脿 la chaire de droit social du CNAM de Paris.
Intervenants:
- Marie Mercat-Bruns, Chaire de droit social, CNAM, Paris
- Marie-France Bureau, Universit茅 平特五不中, Montr茅al
- Val茅rie Doumeng, Universit茅 de la Guyanne fran莽aise, Guadeloupe
- Jean-Fran莽ois Niort, Universit茅 de la Guyanne fran莽aise, Guadeloupe
La citoyennet茅 et la diversit茅
颁辞苍蹿茅谤别苍肠颈别谤: Dominique Schnapper
Date: lundi 29 mai 2006 脿 11 h
Lieu: 3660 Peel, Common Room
Dans sa r茅flexion sur 芦 la probl茅matique de la citoyennet茅 et de la diversit茅 禄 dans les 脡tats pluriculturels comme la France et le Canada, Dominique Schnapper puisera dans son exp茅rience de l鈥檃dministration publique. Son exp茅rience de la vie et le fruit de ses recherches semblent prouver 脿 ses yeux que la citoyennet茅 est aussi un principe de gestion de la diversit茅. Selon madame Schnapper, le probl猫me se pose de savoir si la citoyennet茅 peut transcender toutes les formes de diversit茅. En d'autres termes, elle se demande s'il existe des limites aux diversit茅s compatibles avec les principes d茅mocratiques.
Lors de la conf茅rence, elle s'efforcera d'analyser le sens de ces limites.
Colloque de l'ACFAS : les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique
74e Cong猫s de l'ACFAS 芦Le savoir : trame de la modernit茅禄
mercredi 17 mai, 2006
Personne responsable : Colleen Sheppard
Point de ralliement : Universit茅 平特五不中 (dans la continuit茅 de l鈥橝venue 平特五不中 College, derri猫re le Portail Roddick, qui donne face 脿 la rue Sherbrooke)
Les concepts de droits de la personne, de plus en plus appliqu茅s dans divers contextes sociaux et culturels, sont le reflet d鈥檜n monde juridiquement pluriel, dont la pluralit茅 inspire de nouvelles id茅es sur les relations entre le droit et la soci茅t茅. 脌 cet effet, il est non seulement important d鈥� analyser le droit dans son contexte social, philosophique, 茅thique et historique, mais il est 茅galement essentiel d鈥檈xplorer les interfaces existant entre les droits de la personne et les nombreuses normes collectives, institutionnelles et culturelles. Associer l鈥櫭﹖ude des droits de la personne au pluralisme juridique permet de mettre en lumi猫re l鈥檌mportance des multiples ordres juridiques et normatifs, les investigations 茅thiques, les savoirs locaux, les relations individuelles et syst茅miques ainsi que le pouvoir social dans les institutions et les communaut茅s (de la soci茅t茅) civile(s). Ce colloque comprend deux sessions. La premi猫re adressera de multiples conceptualisations du pluralisme juridique et ses significations potentielles pour le respect de la dignit茅 humaine dans les contextes institutionnels pluriels de la vie quotidienne. La seconde session s鈥� orientera vers des probl茅matiques parall猫les, mais concernant les droits de la personne dans des situations de conflit arm茅.
LE PLURALISME JURIDIQUE, LES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE ET LE DROIT AU QUOTIDIEN
13h00 鈥� 15h00
Pr茅sidente : Colleen Sheppard, Directrice de recherche, Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 平特五不中
Jean Guy Belley, Directeur, Centre de recherche en droit priv茅 et compar茅 du Qu茅bec, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 平特五不中
Guylaine Vall茅e, 脡cole de relations industrielles, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
Julie DesRosiers, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 Laval
LE PLURALISME JURIDIQUE ET LES DROITS DE LA PERSONNE DANS LES SITUATIONS DE CONFLIT ARM脡
15h15 鈥� 17h00
Pr茅sident : Fran莽ois Cr茅peau, Directeur scientifique, Centre d鈥櫭﹖udes et de recherche internationales de l鈥� Universit茅 de Montr茅al (C脡RIUM)
Ren茅 Provost, Directeur, Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique, Facult茅 de droit, Universit茅 平特五不中
Anne Saris, Professeure adjointe, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al
Peter Leuprecht, Directeur, l鈥橧nstitut d'茅tudes internationales de Montr茅al (IEIM), l鈥� Universit茅 de Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al et Repr茅sentant sp茅cial des Nations Unies pour les droits de l鈥檋omme au Cambodge
Speaking the Unspeakable: A Conversation with Survivors of Three Genocides
Host: Payam Akhavan
Speakers: H茅di Fried, Youk Chhang, & Esther Mujawayo
Date: April 7, 2006
What does it mean to survive genocide? How can life make sense in the aftermath of radical evil? Does human rights discourse adequately capture the gravity of such an experience? Is justice possible for the ultimate crime? Do we learn from history or is 鈥渘ever again鈥� an empty promise?
These probing questions were discussed in an intimate conversation with three extraordinary persons:
- H茅di Fried is a Holocaust survivor who was interned at the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps as a child. She is an accomplished psychologist and human rights advocate in Sweden.
- Youk Chhang is a survivor of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge genocide. He is the Director of the Cambodia Documentation Centre in Phnom Penh and has played a leading role in advocating accountability for Khmer Rouge crimes.
- Esther Mujawayo is a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She is the founder of the women鈥檚 support group Avega and author of both the remarkable memoir SurVivantes and La fleur de St茅phanie, about her search for truth following the killing of her sister and her entire family in 1994.
Following Orders: Lessons from Nuremberg for Soldiers and Children
Lecturer: Martha Minow
Convener: Colleen Sheppard
Date: March 9, 2006
Harvard University law professor Martha Minow explored the defense of 鈥渇ollowing orders鈥� from a superior in relation to charges of war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity. The rejection of this defense is often traced to the Nuremberg Trials, where it was established that responsibility runs to the individual -- no one can be excused from responsibility for these most serious offenses on the grounds that he or she was following superior orders.
However, the reality of the rule both at Nuremberg and since is more complicated. Even if we were free of political preoccupations, devising a workable rule about superior orders would be very difficult. Several fields in psychology underscore obstacles to a workable rule teaching both military obedience and resistance to illegal orders. The stress of war and the special problems posed by the war on terror accentuate these obstacles.
Minow鈥檚 lecture explored the components of a workable rule and effective training while addressing how the problem of responsibility must be distributed, not placed only on the head of the individual soldiers.
Hybrid Courts in Context
Chair: Ren茅 Provost
Collaborator: Soci茅t茅 qu茅b茅coise de droit international
Date: February 17, 2006
Full day conference on international criminal law, focusing on hybrid courts with jurisdiction over international crimes in Sierra Leone, Cambodia, East Timor, and Bosnia. Speakers included many high-level individuals having played an important role in these courts.
Welcome [.doc]
Panel 1 [.doc]: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts
Chair: Valerie Oosterveld (U. of Western Ontario)
Panelists:
- David Crane (Former Prosecutor SCSL); Theme: Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Jan Kleffner (University of Amsterdam); Theme: East Timor Serious Crimes Panel
Panel 2 [.doc]: Taking Stock of Current Challenges facing Hybrid Courts (cont'd)
Chair: Ariane Brunet (Rights and Democracy)
Panelists:
- Peter Leuprecht (UQAM & UN SG Special Representative for Cambodia); Theme: Extraordinary Chamber for Khmer Rouge Crimes
- St茅phane Bourgon (ICTY defence counsel); Theme: Referrals to the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber
Panel 3 [.doc]: Relations with Other Entities
Chair: Luc C么t茅 (former SCSL Chief of Prosecution)
Panelists:
- Richard Dicker (Director, International Justice Project, Human Rights Watch, NYC); Theme: Strategies for Burundi
- li>Fr茅d茅ric M茅gret (平特五不中); Theme; Theoretical Justification of Hybrid Courts, with a Focus on Iraq
- Caitlin Reiger (former legal officer, SCSL and In't Centre for Transitional justice, NYC); Theme: Contribution to Domestic Courts
Panel 4 [.doc]: Contribution to post-Conflict Reconciliation
Chair: Chile Eboe-Osuji (former ICTR prosecutor)
Panelists:
- Payam Akhavan (平特五不中 & former prosecutor, ICTY); Theme: Potential and limits of international criminal law
- Bruce Broomhall (UQAM); Theme: Civil Society and Hybrid Courts
- Chandra Sriram (London); Theme: The SCSL and Society in SL
Conclusion [.doc]
Who is My Brother's Keeper?
Chairs: Ren茅 Provost & Irwin Cotler
Date: December 1, 2005
In conjunction with the Visas for Life Exhibit, sponsored by Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University, held at McLennan Library during November 2005.
A discussion of the legal and socio-historical perspectives relating to the role of diplomatic and governmental 鈥渞escuers鈥� of Jews and other refugees during World War Two, and contemporary dilemmas where rules and laws may be bent or broken for humanitarian purposes.
Featuring:
Mr. Louis Philippe Mendes
Mr. Mendes will pay tribute to his grandfather, Portuguese Consul General Aristide de Sousa Mendes, who in Bordeaux, France in June, 1940 violated the instructions of Portugal鈥檚 government and issued 30,000 visas. As a result he was summarily dismissed, his career was ruined, and he died impoverished and disgraced.
Professor Ren茅 Provost
Faculty of Law, 平特五不中
Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Professor Morton Weinfeld
Dept. of Sociology, 平特五不中
Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies
The Struggle for Human Rights - A Personal Story
Lecturer: Radhika Coomaraswamy
Chair: Micheline Senia
Date: November 8, 2005
Violence against women is a pervasive crime that is often hidden from the eyes of the law. Radhika Coomaraswamy has worked tirelessly in different parts of the world to demand that criminal justice systems acknowledge the hidden plight of women.
Radhika Coomaraswamy has earned degrees from Yale, Columbia and Harvard, and was deployed for nine years as an Independent Expert on Violence against Women for the United Nations. She has identified and held up to scrutiny three contexts in which women are routinely victims of violence: the family; the community; the state. She is Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, a World Remand Centre in the country Sri Lanka that has experienced decades of serious ethnic conflict.
When her mandate as Special Rapporteur came to an end in 2003 she immediately took on another post as Chair of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka. Throughout the last decade she has maintained a constant output of research and publications in law, social theory and conflict research. Radhika Coomaraswamy can truly be described as a public intellectual both in her own country and at the international level.
The 平特五不中 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Faculty of Law welcomed Radhika Coomaraswamy to share stories of her struggle to bring to light episodes of violence against women, and to tell how she has forced governments to take action against the abuse, enslavement and marginalization of women. Extracts from her speech can be found
Customary International Humanitarian Law: Challenges, Practices, Debates
Chairs: Armand de Mestral & Ren茅 Provost
Date: September 29 to October 1, 2005
平特五不中 and the Canadian Red Cross hosted an international conference in Montreal to discuss the conclusions of the recent International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) study on customary international humanitarian law.
This unique study conducted by the ICRC in cooperation with hundreds of researchers, lawyers and experts worldwide was launched in the spring of 2005.
The study鈥檚 objective is to promote compliance with international humanitarian law and as a result, to offer better protection to victims of war. The study will offer the world a common code of rules applicable to armed conflict that all parties to the conflict are obliged to follow.
This conference will bring together prominent professors from Canadian, American and European academic spheres, criminal law experts, and representatives from the Canadian government including the Department of National Defence, as well as representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and lawyers with experience in international tribunals.
For more information on the Customary International Humanitarian Law study, please visit the website.
