Convened by the University of Georgia School of Law – home institution of the ICC prosecutor’s special adviser on children in and affected by armed conflict – this daylong conference will examine issues related to children and international criminal justice. Experts will be drawn from academia and the practice; from international organizations such as UNICEF and the Office of the Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General for Children & Armed Conflict; and from nongovernmental organizations like Human Rights Watch, International Center for Transitional Justice, International Committee of Red Cross, No Peace Without Justice, Protect Education in Insecurity & Conflict, Save the Children, and The Carter Center. They will consider legal doctrines, field research, and policy options. These discussions will assist the special adviser to advise the Office of the Prosecutor, in the process of its development of a Policy Paper on Children. The morning will feature a public, plenary session, with presentations by an expert panel and a keynote address by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. Then will follow an afternoon of closed workshop sessions, with discussion led by experts who will have prepared two-page topic papers.
The keynote address and the plenary presentations, along with student rapporteurs’ Chatham-House-Rules accounts of the breakout sessions, will be published in the Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law.
Sponsored by
- University of Georgia School of Law
- Dean Rusk Center for International Law & Policy
- Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
- Georgia Law Project on Armed Conflict & Children
- African Studies Institute, University of Georgia
- Planethood Foundation
- American Society of International Law-Southeast