Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency
The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
University of Haifa, September 7-19 – 2016
Haifa, Israel
Day 1
Wednesday, September 7
10:00 – 10:15: Prof. Gad Barzilai, Dean of the Faculty of Law and PI Minerva RLEC: Opening remarks
10:15 – 11:15: Prof. Eli Salzberger, Director, Minerva RLEC: Counter Terrorism Legislation in Israel
11:15 – 11:30: Coffee break
First panel: Economical Aspects of Terrorism and Belligerency in International Law
11:30- 13:00: Idit Shafran Gittleman, Bar Ilan University and a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI): Financial Considerations in War
Respondent: Prof. Eli Salzberger
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Ira Ryk-Lakhman, University College London: Protection and Security of Foreign Investments in Times of Hostilities
Respondent: Dr. Suha Jubran-Ballan, Minerva RLEC
15:30 – 15:45: Coffee break
15:45 – 17:15: Guest lecture: Dr. Gilad Noam, Israel Ministry of Justice, Department of Special International Affairs: International Humanitarian Law in the Era of International Criminal Justice.
18:30 Dinner
Day 2
Tuesday, September 13:
Second panel: Legal aspects of Technological Measures and Political Design against Terrorism and Belligerency
10:00 – 10:15: Gathering
10:15 – 11:45: Anna Evangelidi, City University London: Putting Unmanned Warfare into Context: The Use of Drones in Counterterrorism Operations by the United States and Israel
Respondent 1: Roy Keidar, former Legal Advisor for the Israeli National Security Council at the Prime Minister’s Office, and Special Counsel for Security and Emerging Technologies to Yigal Arnon & co. Law Firm
Respondent 2: Prof. Amnon Reichman, PI Minerva RLEC
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Guest lecture: Roy Keidar: The Change in the Nature of Warfare – What Can We Learn From the Israeli Experience?
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 16:00: Barbara Korte, Goethe University Frankfurt: Autocrats Versus Terrorists – Unlocking Authoritarian Counter-Terrorism Repertoires Through Constitutional System Design And Agency
Respondent: Prof. Gad Barzilai
16:00 – 16:15: Coffee break
16:15 – 18:00: Guest lecture: Emanuela Gillard, Research Fellow, European University Institute: Counter-Terrorism Measures and Principled Humanitarian Action
19:00 – Dinner
Day 3
Wednesday, September 14:
Third panel: Terrorism and Belligerency in International humanitarian law
09:00 – 09:15: Gathering
09:15 – 10:45: Guest lecture: Prof. Laurie Blank, Emory University, School of Law: Protection of U.N. Facilities during Armed Conflict and the Limits of Inviolability
10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Ido Rosenzweig, Director of Research (Terrorism, Belligerency and Cyber) Minera RLEC; Research Fellow Hebrew University Faculty of Law; Chairman, ALMA: Rethinking the Basic Principles of IHL and Their Application over Combatants’ Lives
Respondent: Emanuela Gillard
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30- 14:45: Guest lecture: Robert Neufeld, University of Haifa: The Impact of Motives on the Legality of Decisions in Modern Battlefield
Respondent: Prof. Amichai Cohen, Senior lecture, Ono Academic Center and Senior Researcher, Israel Democracy Institute
14:45 – 15:00: Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00: Guest lecture: Admiral (ret.) Amichay Ayalon,Chairman of the Executive Committee of the University of Haifa and senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI(: [TBD]
Day 4
Sunday, September 18:
Fourth panel: Criminal and Administrative Measures against Terrorism and Belligerency
10:00 – 10:15: Gathering
10:15 – 11:45: Hadas Cohen, Hebrew University: Administrative Detention – the Slippery Slope of the Legal Anti-Terrorism Paradigm
Respondent: Prof. Robert Roth, Faculty of Law, Geneva Academy of IHL and HR
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Guest lecture: Prof. Robert Roth: Criminal Law Responses to Terrorism: a Contemporary and Critical Assessment
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch
14:30 – 16:00: Guest lecture: Dr. Ziv Bohrer: The False History of the Categorization of Armed Conflicts
16:00: Prof. Amnon Reichman: Concluding remarks
18:00 Dinner
The workshop was recorded and streamlined
on the Minerva Center YouTube Channel
This event was by invitation only
