18 May 2022
Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities: The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil UN Investigative Mandates. May 19, 2022
| From Syria to South Sudan, and most recently Ukraine, United Nations investigative mandates establish the truth and gather evidence of potential international atrocity crimes to help lay the foundations of future accountability. In a soon-to-be-published report, Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities: The Permanent Support Needed to Fulfil UN Investigative Mandates, two potential models are included to build and better support the UN investigative capacity. These paradigms, together with the general findings of the report, will be discussed by a high-level panel on Thursday 19 May 2022 from 1500 – 1630 BST at the Palais des Nations, Room XXIII in the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. |
| For free registration in-person or online visit: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/report-launch-anchoring-accountability-mass-atrocities |
| Anchoring Accountability for Mass Atrocities is the result of a two-year study by the International Bar Association (IBA) in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and the Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide (CPG) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. |
| Welcome remarks HE Ambassador Kurt Jäger, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations Office at Geneva HE Ambassador Beth van Schaack, US Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice HE Ambassador Katharina Stash, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations Office at Geneva Panellists Ambassador Stephen Rapp, Visiting Fellow of Practice, University of Oxford; Council Member, IBA's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) Federica D’Alessandra, Deputy Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict; Section on Public and Professional Interest Representative to the IBAHRI; Member, IBA War Crimes Committee Advisory Board Sareta Ashraph, Visiting Fellow of Practice, University of Oxford; Co-Chair, IBA War Crimes Committee Myriam Fillaud, Senior Political Adviser and Head of New York Office, UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da'esh/ISIL Michelle Jarvis, Deputy Head, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) Nicholas Koumjian, Head, IIIM Paul Oertly, Legal Counsel, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Kirsty Sutherland, Visiting Fellow of Practice, University of Oxford; Secretary, IBA War Crimes Committee Sam Zarifi, Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists |