The International Scientific Conference on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide “Legal and Social Consequences of Crimes of International Law in Ukraine” will take place at the University of Warsaw.

When: December 14, 2023, 09:30-17:00 (Warsaw time, CET).

Where: Kazimierz Palace, Senate Hall of the University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw, Poland.

The conference will also be available online. To watch, you need to register using this link.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

09.00 – 09.30 Registration of the participants

09.30 – 10.00 Opening of the Conference, welcoming

10.00 - 11:30 Issues of international criminal law (I)

• Prof. David Donat Cattin, Adjunct Associate Professor (Int’l Law), Center for Global Affairs, New York University, Member, Advisory Council, Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression

The ICC investigations and prosecutions on international crimes perpetrated in the framework of the war of aggression in and against Ukraine, and the urgent need to reform its limited jurisdiction on the crime of aggression

• Yuriy Bielousov, PhD, Director of the War Crimes Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine

Peculiarities of the national system of Ukraine for prosecution of international crimes

• Yevgen Zakharov, President of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Approach of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Groups to documenting and analysing international crimes and assisting victims

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:45 Issues of international criminal law (II)

• Matthew Gillett, PhD, Professor of the University of Essex; United Nations Special Mandate Holder — Vice-Chair of Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Attacks Against the Existence of a State as an Indicia of Genocidal Intent

• Deborah Ruiz Verduzco, PhD, Director of the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court in The Hague

How the future of Reparations may look like for Ukraine: perspective from the ICC

12:45 - 13:00 Coffee break

13.00 - 14:30 Issues of international criminal law (III)

• Prof. Karolina Wierczyńska, Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of the International Public Law

From Lemkin's ideas to the convention on genocide

• Prof. Hanna Kuczyńska, Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of the Criminal Law

How Lemkin's ideas became reality: practice of prosecuting genocide and its problems

• Barbara Błońska, PhD, Andriy Kosylo, PhD, University of Warsaw, International Crimes Studies Center

Forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian families: the problem of criminal law qualification

14:30 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:45 Challenges in the area of social policy

• Prof. Katarzyna Celińska, John Jay College of Criminal Justice the City University of New York

Katarzyna Witkowska-Rozpara, PhD, University of Warsaw, Centre for Criminological Analysis

The reaction of non-governmental organizations to the crisis situation related to the influx of Ukrainian refugees in Poland — initial research reports

• Maria Baran, PhD, SWPS University

The psychological well-being of refugee women from Ukraine — results of qualitative research

• Prof. Mikołaj Pawlak, Agnieszka Kozakoszczak, Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization of the University of Warsaw

Intercultural assistance at school — challenges related to the organization of the education sector for children from Ukraine

• Liudmyla Dubchak, PhD, co-worker of the Criminological Analysis Centre of the University of Warsaw

Children from Ukrainian orphanages during the war. Challenges for Poland and other European countries

16:45 - 17:00 Closing of the Conference

Organizers:

• International Crimes Studies Centre of the University of Warsaw

• Centre for Criminological Analysis of the University of Warsaw

• Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy of the University of Warsaw

• Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization of the University of Warsaw

• Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization of the University of Warsaw

Partners:

• International Association of Penal Law (AIDP), Polish Section

• Sunflowers Foundation

• Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

• The EU-funded Project Pravo-Justice