Barnesoldatkonferansen
Pressemelding Barnesoldatskonferansen 2009: Barnesoldater: hva kan vi gjøre for å hindre det? - vi feirer 20-årsdagen for FNs konvensjon om barnets rettigheter
Dato: 06.11.2009
Dag Hammarskjöldprogrammet ved Voksenåsen inviterer til Barnesoldatskonferansen 2009:
”Barnesoldater – hva kan vi gjøre for å forhindre det?”
Etter 20 år med FNs konvensjon om barnets rettigheter rammes fremdeles disse svakeste av oss av uhyrlige overgrep og misbruk. Blant disse er barnesoldatenes skjebne de mest groteske eksemplene på verdenssamfunnets svikt. Barnekonvensjonen synes svekket nettopp i tider da den trengs mest: i konflikt og krig.
Dette vil vi gjøre noe med gjennom opplysning, møter mellom sørlige og nordlige eksperter, fotfolk og aktive som vil lære mer for å kunne hjelpe.
Lisbeth Palme, Magne Raundalen med flere Denne konferansen bringer sammen fremtredende navn i kampen mot barnesoldater, både de som kjempet frem konvensjonen for 20 år siden, og de som står i ildlinjen i dag. UNICEF i Norge og Sverige var i fremste linje ved å trykke på for at FN skulle opprette en egen konvensjon for barns rettigheter. Og som styreledere i Norge og Sverige var Lisbet Palme og Magne Raundalen avgjørende for at konvensjonen så dagens lys i 1989. I svensk UD var Dorit Alopaeus-Ståhl en av pådriverne. I tillegg kommer folk fra felten for å dele sine ferske erfaringer fra flere kontinenter. Representanter fra UNICEF, Redd Barna, PRIO og FN vil også delta.
Pris: 500,- inkl. lunsj
Arrangør: Dag Hammarskjöldprogrammet ved Voksenåsen har sammen med Networkers SouthNorth fått med seg Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, og Norges Kvinne- og Familieforbund og nordiske pionerer for barns rettigheter i FN.
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Barnesoldater: hva kan vi gjøre for å hindre det? - vi feirer 20-årsdagen for FNs konvensjon om barnets rettigheter
Wolfram Kistner og frigjøringsteologi i vår tid Rettferdighet i en urolig tid Stiaan van der Merwe, sørafrikanske teolog, og
Beyond Horror - 20-21 Nov 2008 DRC and Rwanda Beyond Horror in Rwanda and DRC - breaking the wall of silence of unprecedented mass violence
Voksenaasen 19th – 22nd November 2008
Second Conference in the Genocide-Mass Violence Series
This conference shall deal with the roots and ramifications of genocide in Rwanda and the region, and the mass violence that is currently tearing apart the peoples and nations in the Great Lakes region. It is about colonial and post colonial atrocities, warring fractions, greed and the international community’s complicity and negligence in one of history’s most gruesome but sadly still ongoing tragedies.
Beyond Horror is first of all about the heroic fight for survival and dignity - and the search for a way forward by the peoples in the region.
“Genocides and other mass atrocities are consequences of complex political actions not, as they are often characterised, as simply senseless slaughter based mainly on identity or cultural difference. This means that besides the humanitarian actions to stop or minimise killings, torture and rape of civilians, especially women and children, the crucial challenge to managing or solving them requires political solutions, rooted in participation of all affected persons, truth, power restructuring and reconciliation.”
These words set the tone for the statement submitted from the Voksenaasen conference on Genocide in Nov 2007. Pursuing the intentions to “continue the painful path into investigating ourselves and the challenges we and others are facing to more adequately respond to the ever growing numbers of victims of global, regional and local injustices committed.”
Wednesday 19th November
Arrival, foreign participants
2000 Dinner
Thursday 20nd November
0830 - 0835 Welcome, Michael Sahlin, Swedish ambassador to Norway
0835 – 0845 Introduction by Øystein Tveter, chairman of Networkers board
0845 –1045 A Long and Winding War,
On the Great Lakes region, its history, geopolitics, quest for resources, and humanitarian challenges
Francois Houtart – Keynote Emily Sikazwe - discussant Zamzam Kalume – discussant Mathilde Muhindo – discussant Henning Melber – discussant Chair: Charles Abugre
(coffee/tea break)
1100 – 1300 Women and Society in Kivu - Today’s atrocities and the way out
Venantie Bisimwa Nabintu – Keynote Lisbet Palme - discussant Randi Solhjell – discussant Mathilde Muhindo – discussant Karen Brouneus – discussant Tasila Mbewe - discussant Chair: Lucy Muyoyeta
1300 – 1430 Lunch
1430 – 1800 “Achievements and Remaining Challenges.” The International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda at a crossroads
Alex Obote-Odora - Keynote Trond Dolva – discussant Siri Frigaard – discussant Zamzam Kalume – discussant Chair: Reuben Daka
1900 Dinner
Evening: House Concert (at about 20.00)
Friday 21st November
0830 – 1030 The Preventable Genocide, Rwanda Revisited
Ingvar Carlsson – Key-note Lisbet Palme - discussant Alejandro Bendaña - discussant Venantie Bisimwa Nabintu – discussant Chair: John Y. Jones
1100 – 1300 Accountability – Complicity in Genocide and Mass Violence
Alex Obote-Odora – keynote Trond Dolva – discussant Elinor Sisulu – discussant Francois Houtart - discussant Siri Frigaard – discussant Emily Sikazwe – discussant Ingvar Carlsson - discussant Chair: Alejandro Bendana
1300 – 1500 Lunch
1500 – 1700 Towards a Statement
Charles Abugre Francois Houtart Emily Sikazwe Mathilde Muhindo Chair: Henning Melber
1900 Dinner and Thank You
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Crisis Zimbabwe: Coordinator Elinor Sisulu invites participants to an open meeting on the current situation in Zimbabwe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sunday November 23rd Morning (time to be announced, lunch will be included) Excursion Tour for participants continuing into the Conference on “Women in the Land of Conflict” Nov 23-25th
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Names on the people on the programme
ABUGRE, CHARLES is the head of policy at Christian Aid in Britain. He is a development economist and came to Christian Aid from teaching development studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.
BANDA, GABRIEL holds a MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, England. He is an independent Zambian development worker, journalist, poet, theatre artist and writer. He is a close associate of Zambia’s first president, Dr Kenneth D Kaunda. BENDAÑA, ALEJANDRO, professor, director CEI, Centre for International Studies, Nicaragua, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the UN and engaged in UN peace negotiations i.e. in Indonesia, Horn of Africa and Sri Lanka. He is a board member of Networkers SouthNorth. BROUNEUS, KAREN is a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict research at the University of Uppsala. She recently concluded her PhD on the theme: Rethinking reconciliation: Concepts, Methods and an Empirical Study of Truth Telling and Psychological Health in Rwanda.
CARLSSON, INGVAR is former Prime Minister of Sweden, and chair of the UN independent inquiry into the actions that the United Nations took at the time of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
DAKA, REUBEN is the Drector of Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation in Kitwe Zambia, of which the Dag Hammarskjold Center Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation is part.
FRIGAARD, SIRI is chief public prosecutor and director of the Norwegian National Authority for Prosecution of Organized and Other Serious Crime. The office is also responsible for the investigation and prosecution of special international crimes, such as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
HOUTART, FRANÇOIS is a sociologist with a master’s degree in political and social sciences and a PhD in sociology of the Catholic university of Leuven where he served as a professor from 1958 till 1990. He is director of CETRI and a leading member of the World Social Forum.
JONES, JOHN Y. is currently director of Networkers SouthNorth has worked on development education and aid issues. He recently co-edited the book Global Justice: The White Man’s Burden? (2007).
KALUME, ZAMZAM is a youth co-ordinator in Kigali, Rwanda, and engaged in civil society development.
MBEWE, TASILA is programme co-ordinator of the Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, at Dag Hammarskjold Center at Mindolo College, Kitwe in Zambia.
MELBER, HENNING is Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala Sweden, an author and researcher, and former Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He is Vice President of the International Network on Genocide Scholars.
MUHINDO, MATHILDE, former member of Parliament in Congo DRC, and now director of OLAMA, a social assistance agency of the Roman Catholic diocese of Bukavu, South Kivu, on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MUYOYETA, LUCY is a leading women’s rights activist in Zambia and has engaged in and written on Gender and Human Rights issues in her country.
NABINTU, VÉNANTIE BISIMWA is executive secretary of Women’s Network for Justice and Peace (Rfdp) in Congo DRC. She is a distinguished human rights advocate.
OBOTE-ODORA, ALEX is Chief of the Appeals and Legal Advisory Division (ALAD) in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He holds a Doctor of Law’s Degree in International Criminal Law and a Master of Law’s Degree in International Humanitarian Law from the University of Stockholm in Sweden.
PALME, LISBET, member of The International Panel of Eminent personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events. She chaired the UN-sponsored Group of Eminent Women for Namibian and South African Women and Children. Ms Palme was engaged in the International Study on The Impact of Armed Conflicts on Children, led by Mrs Graça Machel, and was expert member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
SAHLIN, MICHAEL, Swedish ambassador to Norway and former director of the Folke Bernadotte Academy. He is also a board member of Voksenaasen.
SIKAZWE, EMILY has a Master of Adult Education and holds an MSc in Agronomy as well as a Diploma in Community-Based Development and a Certificate in Advocacy and Networking, both from the Coady International Institute. She is the director of Women for Change, a leading Zambian organization dedicated to the empowerment of women.
SISULU, ELINOR is director of Crisis Zimbabwe and a leading Zimbabwean and Southern African feminist and writer. Ms Sisulu received the Noma Prize for the best African book in 2003, for the biography of Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime, published in December 2002.
SOLHJELL, RANDI is a researcher at NUPI, Oslo. She has recently issued her master’s paper on Sexual Violence in the DRC.
TROND DOLVA is retired judge of the Supreme Court in Norway.
TVETER, ØYSTEIN is a human rights lawyer and active in the general Norwegian exchange on justice and development issues. Tveter is chair of the board of Networkers SouthNorth.
This conference is organized in consultation and collaboration between the following:
THE DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD CENTER FOR PEACE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE is a part of Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation in Kitwe Zambia, and is working with promoting the legacy of Dag Hammarskjöld. An important issue is to develop fieldwork programs in Political Science and Peace-building for youth and students in Africa.
NETWORKERS SOUTH NORTH is a network organisation of internationally engaged researchers, writers and civil society representatives focusing on and pursuing Southern perspectives on current global justice, human rights and development issues.
VOKSENAASEN is Norway’s national gift to Sweden as a token of gratitude for Swedish aid during and shortly after World War II. Voksenåsen of today is the Swedish centre for Culture and Conferences in Norway and one of the leading in its class. Voksenaasen also arranges its own conferences, seminars and cultural events, and has a substantial collection of art and literature.
THE DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD FOUNDATION was established in Uppsala, Sweden in 1962, in memory of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Foundation deals with cross-cutting global challenges, raising issues, and exploring strategies for change, in areas of Development, Democracy, Peace and Security.
Secretariat: registration and accommodation
VOKSENÅSEN Ullveien 4, 0791 Oslo Tlf. 22 81 15 00 www.voksenaasen.no program@voksenaasen.no
Påmelding: petter@jazzmontor.no
Conference co-ordinator: Øystein Tveter Tlf. +47 90207681
Practical information Apply to: program@voksenaasen.no or contact phone +47 22 81 15 06.
Conference fee NOK 500 per day. Lunch is included. Additional cost for dinner and accommodation. Students may apply for scholarship to cover conference fee. If you cannot attend but would like the conference report sent to you, contact program@voksenaasen.no or Siri Dohlen Tlf. +47 22 81 15 06 siri.dohlen@voksenaasen.no Folkemord - Voksenåsen 16-17 nov 2007 Debatten om folkemord er ofte debatten om "de andre". Vi har fått noen viktige sørstemmer til Voksenåsen og Networkers denne høsten for å snakke om forskjellige perspektiver på folkemord: Hva vil et sørperspektiv bety? Hvilken rolle spiler kolonihistorien? Hva når folkemord brukes som unnskyldning for egne agendaer?
Ullveien 4 (Voksenåsen) 0791 Oslo, tel. +47 930 39 520, mail@networkers.org
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