The 7th Lemkin Reunion 2024
In the long spirit of previous editions of the Lemkin Reunion series, and in the memory of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who lost his family in the Holocaust and first coined the word genocide, CEU's Shattuck Center for Human Rights hosts the 7th edition of the Lemkin Reunion 2024. Raphael Lemkin campaigned tirelessly during his life to ensure that the crime of genocide was enshrined in international law. 2024, the 7th edition of the Lemkin Reunion gathers academics and policymakers involved in responding to atrocity crimes and assess the lessons they learned. This year, we focus on the challenges and atrocities Ukraine faces - and ask for possible ways to tackle these.
The event will take place at CEU Vienna on June 3rd/4th and will be a closed workshop event in which we jointly discuss and work on a book project connected to the Lemkin Reunion. On both evenings we will hold public events to which we invite fellow academics, policymakers, and the interested public.
Program:
Healing Ukraine: Post-conflict Management and Human Rights
Monday, June 3rd
Opening Remarks and presentation of the book project, by Martin Kahanec, Kirsten Roberts Lyer & Felix Butzlaff
Panel 1: discrimination integration and specific groups, Senate Room
Children's rights, by Alex Kuzma, Dr. Jeffrey Wills, and Oleh Romaniuk (online)
Discrimination challenges 'new and old', by Jasminka Džumhur (online)
IDPs, returning refugees, and their integration, and human rights, by Yevhenii Monastyrskyi
Post-war welfare state: how to deal with war victims and their human rights demands, by Igor Burakovsky (online)
CEU Auditorium, Moderated by Ihor Moshenets
Speakers: Jelena Dzankic, Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
Maryna Rabinovych, University of Agder, Norway
Michael Emerson, Center of European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday, June 4th
Panel 2: Justice and Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Chair: Felix Butzlaff
De-securitizing the system (balancing security and human rights), by Saša Janković (online)
Human rights violations and international law (international post war prosecution/justice as a core part of sustainable reconstruction), by Olena Boryslavska (tbc) (online)
International experiences of securing human rights-based rebuilding in post-conflict societies: transitional justice and post-conflict reconciliation, by Darren Bergman (online)
The challenges of gender-based violence, by Anna Mykytenko (online)
Panel 3: Rebuilding Ukraine post-conflict, Chair: Kirsten Roberts Lyer
Post-conflict influx of international and regional organisations, by Snizhana Leu-Severynenko
What EU enlargement will mean for post-conflict Ukraine and human rights, by Maryna Rabinovych & Anne Pintsch
Civil society organisations: how to ensure a lively, educated, resilient, democratic civil society?, by Ihor Moshenets and Mariya Levonova
Keynote by Kateryna Busol on "Russia's Aggression against Ukraine and the Question of Genocide: Historical Context and Emerging Legal Analyses"
Panel 4: Human rights infrastructure, Chair: Ihor Moshenets
Persons with disabilities, by Delia Ferri and Iryna Tekuchova
The ombudsperson, equality body, and other independent-state based institutions and oversight bodies, by Kirsten Roberts Lyer
Importance of a national media system that underpins a functioning human rights infrastructure, by Ilona Sologub (online)
18:00 Public Movie screening at CEU of "20 days in Mariupol"