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Armenian presence at Conference on War Crimes Trials.
Farhad Malekian and Gregory Topalian to speak at prestigious event.
To commemorate the living legacy of Justice Robert H. Jackson on the
60th anniversary of Nuremberg, Chautauqua Institution – together with
the Robert H. Jackson Center and the State University of New York
(SUNY) at Fredonia – will host a conference on September 26-29, 2005,
entitled, Sixty Years After the Nuremberg Trials: Crimes Against
Humanity and Peace. The Athenaeum Hotel will be the site of both the
pre-conference activities starting at noon on September 26, and the
full conference program.
Speakers include Robert Donihi, one of the last surviving prosecutors
of the Tokyo trials, and Whitney R. Harris, a former prosecutor at the
Nuremberg Trials.
Henry T. King, a former U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and
Geoffrey Robertson Q.C., United Nations appeal judge for the War
Crimes Court in West Africa will also be making presentations.
Meanwhile two Armenian speakers are also participating at the
conference.
Farhad Malekian is the founder and the director of the Institute of
International Criminal Law in Uppsala, Sweden. Malekian has
contributed a scholarly acknowledged chapter governing International
Criminal Responsibility of Individuals and States to the well-known
book on International Criminal Law (M. Cherif Bassiouni, 1999). He
introduced for the first time the Principle of International
Tribunality of Jurisdiction in international criminal law at the
Cornell Law School, Cornell University in 2005, embodied in his
article on `Emasculating the Philosophy of International Criminal
Justice in the Iraqi Special Tribunal’ He lectures international
criminal law and public international law and is also the editor of
the Contemporary Journal of International Criminal Law, which will be
published by the Institute of International Criminal Law in 2005. His
work on Crucifying the Philosophy of International Criminal Justice is
also forthcoming. His lecture is part of a panel considering War
Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Resolution.
Gregory Topalian is a historian of the Armenian Genocide. His
particular focus is on the comparative memories of the Armenian
Genocide and the Holocaust. His current work focuses on the different
levels of denial, from the blatant approach of the Turkish State, to
the role academia and the media play both consciously and
unconsciously, in failing to adequately recognise the Armenian case as
genocide.
For the Jackson Symposium, he will be focusing on the manner in which
the Tribunals following World War I have been used by the Turkish
State to deny that what took place in the Anatolian homelands of the
Armenians was a State sponsored genocide. Gregory Topalian is a
Director with the Gomidas Institute (UK), and his primary role is to
introduce the Armenian Genocide to young people in the United
Kingdom. or
Farhad is speaking on Tuesday, Gregory on Wednesday.
Further details about the conference can be found at: