DESCRIPTION Rebalancing International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The Significance of the 1949 Geneva Conventions Seventy Years On. 09:00 – 09:20 OPENING REMARKS Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva Clementina ACEDO – Director, Webster University Geneva Olivier COUTAU – Geneva State Council’s Delegate for International Geneva Elisabetta TRENTA – Minister of Defense, Italy 09:20 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Geneva Conventions at 70. More than a Successful Legacy: A Call for Action Gilles CARBONNIER – Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Professor of Development Economics, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 10:00 – 10:45 SESSION 1: POWs, Internees, Captured Personnel and Detention Facilities Chair: Michel VEUTHEY – Associate Professor of International Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-president, International Institute of Humanitarian Law Challenges in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Jonathan CUÉNOUD – Legal Officer, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Justice Section, Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Indefinite Detention without Trial: U.S. Foreign Policy Failures David BRAMLETTE – Former U.S. Army Special Operations Medic, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran, Undergraduate Student, Webster University Geneva (BA-IR 2019) 10:45 – 11:00 Question and Answer Session 11:15 – 12:30 SESSION 2: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories Chair: Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva IHL in Occupied Palestinian Territory Younis AL KHATIB – President, Palestine Red Crescent Society The Interaction between IHL and IHRL: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories Lama JBARAH – Teaching Assistant, Human Rights Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-President of International-Lawyers.org, Geneva UNRWA, International Law and the Situation of Palestine Refugees in Conflict and Occupation Michael SCHOISWOHL – Deputy Director and Principal Legal Officer, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) A Historical and Political Prospective of the UNHCR Western Sahara Refugee Situation Athar SULTAN-KHAN – Honorary Dean and Professor of International Relations, the Geneva School of Diplomacy (GSD), former Chef de Cabinet of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General during the transition period in New York INFORMATIONS Venue Geneva, Switzerland Organized by Rebalancing International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The Significance of the 1949 Geneva Conventions Seventy Years On. 09:00 – 09:20 OPENING REMARKS Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva Clementina ACEDO – Director, Webster University Geneva Olivier COUTAU – Geneva State Council’s Delegate for International Geneva Elisabetta TRENTA – Minister of Defense, Italy 09:20 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The Geneva Conventions at 70. More than a Successful Legacy: A Call for Action Gilles CARBONNIER – Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Professor of Development Economics, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 10:00 – 10:45 SESSION 1: POWs, Internees, Captured Personnel and Detention Facilities Chair: Michel VEUTHEY – Associate Professor of International Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-president, International Institute of Humanitarian Law Challenges in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Jonathan CUÉNOUD – Legal Officer, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Justice Section, Directorate of International Law, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Indefinite Detention without Trial: U.S. Foreign Policy Failures David BRAMLETTE – Former U.S. Army Special Operations Medic, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran, Undergraduate Student, Webster University Geneva (BA-IR 2019) 10:45 – 11:00 Question and Answer Session 11:15 – 12:30 SESSION 2: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories Chair: Oreste FOPPIANI – Head, Department of International Relations, Webster University Geneva IHL in Occupied Palestinian Territory Younis AL KHATIB – President, Palestine Red Crescent Society The Interaction between IHL and IHRL: The Protection of Civilians in Occupied Territories Lama JBARAH – Teaching Assistant, Human Rights Law, Webster University Geneva, and Vice-President of International-Lawyers.org, Geneva UNRWA, International Law and the Situation of Palestine Refugees in Conflict and Occupation Michael SCHOISWOHL – Deputy Director and Principal Legal Officer, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) A Historical and Political Prospective of the UNHCR Western Sahara Refugee Situation Athar SULTAN-KHAN – Honorary Dean and Professor of International Relations, the Geneva School of Diplomacy (GSD), former Chef de Cabinet of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General during the transition period in New York. © Webster University Geneva