2nd Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency
February 4-18 – 2018
General:
The program includes 5 workshop sessions and a field trip. The dates of the workshop sessions are February 5, 8, 12, 13, and 15.
Participation in the event is by invitation only. For details please contact the organizer and coordinator of the workshop – Ido Rosenzweig, Director of Research (Terrorism, Belligerency and Cyber) at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, at: ido.rose
Some of the sessions of the workshop will be streamlined on the Minerva Center RLuEC YouTube Channel
For short biographical details on the participants see here
Program
Day 1 – Monday, February 5
10:00 – 10:15: Prof. Gad Barzilai PI Minerva RLEC & Deputy Provost – University of Haifa: Opening remarks
10:15 – 11:45: Prof. Eli Salzberger, Director, Minerva RLEC: Counter Terrorism Legislation in Israel
See video streamline here (part one) and here (part 2)
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Ms. Barbara EA Korte, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main: Definitions as keys: Do Domestic Legal Definitions of Terrorism in Autocracies Really Facilitate a More Willful Application of Force than in Democracies?
Respondent: Dr. Fergal Davis, King’s College London (online)
Video streamline here
13:30 – 14:45: Lunch
14:45 – 16:15: Guest Lecture: Dr. Rachel Suissa, The National Security Program and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies, University of Haifa, Military Resilience in Low Intensity Conflicts: The Dynamics of Asymmetry as a Challenge and Response
Video streamline here ; for presentation see here
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: A tour at the University of Haifa campus and observatory and the German Colony
18:30 – Dinner
Day 2 – Thursday, February 8
10:00 – 10:15: Gathering
10:15 – 11:45: Ms. Kehinde Folake Olaoye, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Transnational Law on the Protection of Foreign Investment and Terrorism in Developing Countries.
Respondent: Prof. Arie Reich, Bar Ilan University.
Video streamline here
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Guest lecture: Ms. Ira Ryk-Lakhman, University College London, War Reparations for Foreign Investors.
13:30 – 14:45: Lunch
14:45 – 16:15: Mr. Abhishek Mishra, Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, University of Hamburg: Constitutional and Legal Framework for protracted armed conflict in India: A conundrum of a federal structure
Respondent: Dr. Daniel Benoliel, University of Haifa.
Video streamline here
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: Ms. Maya Mark, Minerva RLEC: Between the Rule of Law and the Law of the Ruler: A political Biography of the prevention of terrorism ordinance.
Respondent: Prof. Gad Barzilai, PI Minerva RLEC & Deputy Provost – University of Haifa
Video streamline here
18:30 – Dinner
Day 3 – Monday, February 12
10:15 – 10:30: Gathering
10:30 – 12:00: Ms. Yip Ka Lok, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: Righting a Wrong? The Theoretical Basis of Combatant Immunity and its Implications on the ‘Permissive Effect’ of the Law of Armed Conflicts (‘LOAC’)
Respondent: Prof. Florian Jessberger, University of Hamburg
12:00 – 12:15: Coffee break
12:15 – 13:45: Dr. Bence Kis Kelemen, University of Pecs: Targeted killing, armed drones and the international law of use of force
Respondent: Dr. Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University
Video streamline here
13:45 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:45: Panel: Counter-Terrorism and Humanitarian Assistance
Chair: Dr. Itamar Mann, University of Haifa
Speaker: Ms. Emanuela Gillard, European University Institute & Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
Speaker: Prof. Florian Jessberger, University of Hamburg
Video streamline here
18:30 – Dinner
Day 4 – Tuesday, February 13
10:00 – 10:15: Gathering
10:15 – 11:45: Ms. Hannah Sophie Kiel, Free Berlin University: Arms Delivery to Peshmerga under the UN Charter – An Indirect Intervention by Invitation.
Respondent: Emanuela Chiara-Gillard, European University Institute & Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Guest Lecture: Dr. Myriam Feinberg, University of Haifa, The International Law of Counter Terrorism: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too?
Video streamline here
13:30 – 14:45: Lunch
14:45 – 16:15: Dr. Sofia Galani, Law University of Bristol, Right to Life, Margin of Appreciation and Anti-Terrorist Operations in The European Court Of Human Rights: Do Desperate Times Call For Desperate Solutions?
Respondent: Prof. David Kretzmer, Sapir Academic College
Video streamline here
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: Guest lecture: Mr. Ido Rosenzweig, Minerva RLEC & Research Fellow – Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Combatants Dressed as Civilians? The Israeli use of Undercover Unit Operations.
Video streamline here
18:30 – Dinner
Day 5 – Thursday, February 15
10:00 – 10:15: Gathering
10:15 – 11:45: Mr. Emre Turkut, Department of European, Public and International Law, Ghent University: Accommodating Security Imperatives V. Protecting Fundamental Rights: The Fight against Terrorism in Turkey
Respondent: Dr. Maria Varaki, University of Helsinki
Video streamline here
11:45 – 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Guest lecture: Mr. Peter Inalegwu Awodi, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria: Counterterrorism Laws and Human Rights: Interrogating State-Civil Society Relations in Nigeria and Kenya (online presentation)
13:30 – 14:45: Lunch
14:45 – 16:15: Guest lecture: Dr. Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jihadist Visual Communication Strategy: Unveiling ISIL’s Hostage Executions Videos Production.
Video streamline here
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: Guest lecture: Dr. Maria Varaki, University of Helsinki: The Semiotics of Uniform
Video streamline here
18:00 – 18:20: Concluding remarks
19:00 – Dinner
