Program konferencji "Legal Architecture of Humanitarian Action", Warszawa 6-7 grudnia 2018 r.

Serdecznie zapraszamy do uczestnictwa w konferencji Legal Architecture of Humanitarian Action w dniach 6-7 grudnia 2018 r. w Warszawie (Aula Baszkiewicza, Coll. Politicum, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28), w ramach której odbędzie się Dialog Obywatelski z Androulla Kaminara - Dyrektor DG ECHO Komisji Europejskiej oraz Joostem Hermanem - Prezesem konsorcjum Network on Humanitarian Action. 

Informacja o konferencji oraz programie znajduje się poniżej. Udział w konferencji jest bezpłatny. Organizatorzy proszą jednak o rejestrację pod linkiem: https://goo.gl/forms/GB74G2aJI113AZnR2

W razie jakichkolwiek pytań, prosimy o kontakt z dr hab. Patrycją Grzebyk (patrycja.grzebyk@uw.edu.pl).

International Conference

„Legal Architecture of Humanitarian Action”

organized jointly by Faculty of Law and Administration and Faculty of Political Science

and International Studies, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with Network

on Humanitarian Action and with the European Commission Representation in Poland

6th -7th December 2018

Collegium Politicum, Aula Baszkiewicza

University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

6th December 2018

14.00-14.15. Opening

• Prof. UW. Anna Giza-Poleszczuk (Vice-Rector of University of Warsaw)

• Prof. Joost Herman (President of Network on Humanitarian Action)

14.15.- 15.45 Citizens' Dialogue "EU humanitarian challenges"

• 14.15 – 14.45 Androulla Kaminara (Director, Directorate C - Africa, Asia, Latin America,

Caribbean and Pacific, Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Operations (DG ECHO), European Commission)

• 14.45 – 15.15 Joost Herman (President of Network on Humanitarian Action)

• 15.15 – 15.45 Q&A session

Chaired by Elżbieta Mikos-Skuza (Director of NOHA Warsaw)

15.45-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.30 Humanitarian Action and International Organizations

• United Nations Contemporary ‘Offensive and Stabilization’ Operations and their Implications

on Humanitarian Action – Magdalena Pacholska (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Freie

Universität Berlin)

• Responsibility of international organizations for peace-keeping operations: ARIO, Blue

Helmets, Haiti and beyond... – Bartłomiej Krzan (University of Wrocław)

• "When parties to armed conflict are labelled 'terrorist groups': new challenges to humanitarian

action - an analysis in the context of the EU regulatory framework" - Stéphane Kolanowski

(ICRC Delegation to the EU and NATO, and the Kingdom of Belgium)

Chaired by Roman Kuźniar (University of Warsaw)

Talks will be translated simultaneously into Polish.

7th December 2018

9.00-11.00 Humanitarian Action at the crossroads of national and international law

• Interlocking and interblocking domestic and international legal frameworks concerning

humanitarian action"? - Joost Herman (University of Groningen)

• Legal issues of the access to the victims of armed conflict and natural disaster – Hans Joachim-

Heintze (University of Bochum)

• Humanitarian access to IDPs – persisting challenges in an unwelcoming legal environment

Dorota Heidrich (University of Warsaw)

Chaired by Marek Madej (University of Warsaw)

11.00-11.30 Coffe break

11.30-13.30 Humanitarian action and international crimes

• Denial of humanitarian assistance as international crime – the role of International Criminal

Law in securing humanitarian action – Patrycja Grzebyk (University of Warsaw)

• International responses to Rohingya crisis – Karolina Wierczyńska (Polish Academy of Science)

• Documenting sexual violence in armed conflicts - special needs and protection of vulnerable

victims in the humanitarian assistance setting - the case of ISIS – Agata Helena Skóra (Polish

Academy of Science)

Chaired by Justyna Godlewska-Szyrkowa (University of Warsaw)

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.30 Humanitarian Action and special regimes

• The African Union and legal instruments for prevention of humanitarian crises deriving from

unconstitutional changes of government - Marek Jan Wasiński (University of Łódź)

• Climate change and humanitarian assistance. Responsibility of international organizations in

Oceania – Przemysław Osóbka (Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz)

• Role of soft law in humanitarian action with particular emphasis on IHL soft law – Elżbieta

Mikos-Skuza (University of Warsaw)

Chaired by Aleksander Gubrynowicz (University of Warsaw)

16.30 Closure

• Dr. Elżbieta Mikos-Skuza (Director of NOHA Warsaw)

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/GB74G2aJI113AZnR2