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The aim of the sessions is to bring together a small circle of experts who will engage in an open and frank
discussion held under Chatham House Rules. The discussions will be moderated by Wayamo Director, Bettina
Ambach, and Wayamo Research Director, Mark kersten. each days discussions will be followed by a breakaway
session in which participants will brainstorm and identify relevant and practical recommendations which will be
presented at the final plenary session.
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MONDAY | 27 March 2017 - kEllY-JO BluEN - NEtsANEt BElAY
project Leader for International Africa Director, Research and
Justice, Institute for Justice and Advocacy, Amnesty International,
10:00 11:00 Reconciliation, Johannesburg Johannesburg
OPENINg rEmArks
- ErmIAs kAssAYE - mAx Du PlEssIs
BEttINA AmBAch Legal Researcher for the African Senior Researcher, Institute for
Director, Wayamo Foundation Court Research Initiative working Security Studies; Advocate of
in support of the Office of the the High Court of South Africa;
mIchAEl kOch Legal Counsel of the African Union Associate Tenant, Doughty Street
Director-General, Legal Chambers, London
Department, Federal Foreign - DEwA mAvhINgA
Office, Germany Head of Human Rights Watch, South - DIrE tlADI
Africa office professor of International Law,
--- University of pretoria; Special Adviser
- AllAN NgArI to the Minister of International
kEYNOtE sPEEch Senior Researcher, Transnational Relations and Cooperation and
Threats and International Crime Member of the UN International Law
NAvI PIllAY Division ISS, pretoria Commission
Former UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights - FrANs vIlJOEN - tsElIsO thIPANYANE
Director, Centre for Human Rights, executive Committee member,
--- professor of International Human Council for the Advancement of the
Rights Law South African Constitution
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cOFFEE BrEAk --- ---
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BIOGRAPHIES
BEttINA NEtsANEt international justice and justice
AmBAch BElAY for conflict-related sexual and
gender-based violence, and
Director, Wayamo Foundation Africa Director, Research and works on various issues pertaining
Advocacy, Amnesty International, to the politics and practices of
Johannesburg justice including, AU-ICC relations,
Bettina Ambach is a consultant broader notions of justice, and
in judicial capacity-building the role of commissions of inquiry
programmes and a senior Netsanet Belay, an ethiopian in accountability processes. She
media consultant with 25 years national, is the Africa Director holds a double Masters degree
of international experience. for Research and Advocacy at in international affairs from the
She has been the Director of Amnesty International. prior to this, London School of economics and
the Wayamo Foundation since he had been Director of the policy peking University, and an Honours
2010. The Wayamo Foundation and Research at the CIVICUS degree in international relations
is an independent, non-profit World Alliance for Citizens from the University of Cape Town.
organisation established to participation in Johannesburg. She writes for different policy and
strengthen the rule of law, He has more than 15 years of media platforms and, until recently,
promote international criminal experience in promoting and she wrote a regular column for
justice and transitional justice in defending human rights at the South African daily, Business Day.
post-conflict countries and foster national, regional and global
transparency through informed levels, and is a trained human ___
journalism in Africa. The head rights lawyer. He spent over two
office is in Berlin, with permanent years in prison in ethiopia as a
delegations in Nairobi and Accra. prisoner of conscience for his role JAmEs
In 2015, Wayamo launched in leading human rights activism gOlDstON
the Africa Group for Justice in that country.
and Accountability (AGJA), an executive Director / Open Society
independent group of senior ___ Justice Initiative, New York
African experts on international
criminal law and human rights,
including political figures, members kEllY-JO James A. Goldston is the
of international and domestic BluEN executive director of the Open
tribunals, and human rights Society Justice Initiative, which
experts. The Africa Group supports project Leader for International advances the rule of law and
efforts to strengthen justice and Justice, Institute for Justice and rights protection worldwide
accountability measures in Africa Reconciliation, Johannesburg through advocacy, litigation,
through domestic and regional research and the promotion
capacity building, advice and of legal capacity. A leading
outreach, and enhancing co- kelly-Jo Bluen is the project practitioner of international
operation between Africa and the leader for international justice human rights and criminal law,
International Criminal Court. The at the Institute for Justice and Goldston has litigated several
Wayamo Foundation acts as the Reconciliation, where she runs groundbreaking cases before
AGJAs secretariat and convener. projects on the geopolitics of the european Court of Human
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Rights and United Nations treaty Chief of personnel Section to Initiative and AU. His specific
bodies on a range of issues the Comprehensive Nuclear research interest lies in the areas
including counterterrorism, racial Test Ban Treaty Organisation of international criminal justice in
discrimination and torture. Mr. in Vienna, a post that he held Africa. In his most recent work, he
Goldston previously served as until 2002, when he became has been involved in developing
co-ordinator of prosecutions the Deputy Head of the Division the International Criminal Court
and senior trial attorney in the Council of europe. Hasenau Withdrawal Strategy for the Office
Office of the prosecutor at the then moved to Afghanistan in of the Legal Counsel, with a
International Criminal Court. past 2005 to become the Head of preliminary study on withdrawal
posts include: legal director of the provincial Reconstruction procedures for AU Member States.
the Budapest-based european Teams in Feyzabad. He served as
Roma Rights Centre; director Deputy Head of the Conventional ___
general for human rights of the Arms Control Division from 2006
Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina 2009, before taking up the
of the Organization for Security post of Deputy Head of Mission, mIchAEl
and Co-operation in europe; and firstly at the German embassy kOch
prosecutor in the Office of the in Nairobi from 2009 to 2012,
United States Attorney for the and subsequently at the German Director General,
Southern District of New York, embassy in Belgrade. Legal Department,
where he focused on organised Federal Foreign Office,
crime. Goldston is a graduate of ___ Germany
Columbia College and Harvard
Law School. He has taught at
Columbia Law School, NYU Law ErmIAs Michael koch is a German
School and the Central european kAssAYE diplomat who started his career
University. in the diplomatic service in
Legal Researcher for the African 1986. Having first served in the
___ Court Research Initiative working in European Community Desk Officer
support of the Office of the Legal subdivision,he was deployed to the
Counsel of the African Union (AU) German General Consulate in San
mIchAEl Francisco in 1988. In 1991 koch was
hAsENAu made personal private Secretary
ermias kassaye is a Legal to the Co-ordinator for German-
ICC Section Head, Federal Foreign Researcher for the African Court American co-operation, a post which
Office, Germany Research Initiative working in he held uninterruptedly until 1995. He
support of the Office of the Legal also served in Asia as Deputy Head
Counsel of the African Union (AU). of Mission at the German embassy
Michael Hasenau has been He holds an LLB degree from of Rangoon, before becoming
the Head of the ICC Section Addis Ababa University School of Head of the Task Force for Internal
since 2015. After studying law Law and an MA degree in Global Reforms of the foreignservice in the
at the Universities of Mnster, Studies with Special emphasis on central department. After a stint as
Lausanne and London, he sat peace and Security in Africa from Head of the political Department in
his Juridical State examinations a joint programme sponsored by the German embassy in New Delhi,
(Staatsexamen) in 1986 and the Institute of peace and Security Michael koch became Head of the
1989. Following a two-year period Studies (Addis Ababa University) Special Afghanistan Task Force
spent at the International Labour and Global european Studies in 2004. Further appointments
Organisations Regional Office for Institute (Leipzig University). He included the post of Ambassador to
europe in Geneva, he entered worked in the AU Commission pakistan in 2008 and that of Special
the German Foreign Service in as a project co-ordinator on Representative of the Federal
1991 and went on to form part protection of civilians, before Government for Afghanistan and
of the German Delegation to the joining the African Court Research pakistanin 2012. In July 2015, Mr.
Conference on Disarmament in Initiative. In his current position, koch took over as Legal Advisor and
Geneva from 19921997. It was he provides research support Director General for Legal Affairs at
in 1997 that he was appointed to the African Court Research the German Federal Foreign Office.
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and gang-related crimes. Mr. du African government complied with two years in 2012. In April 2015,
plessis joined the ISS in 2003 and its obligations to arrest president Navi pillay became the 16th
has headed the organisations Bashir of Sudan, arguing against Commissioner of the International
Crime and Justice programme as the governments claim that Commission against the Death
well as the Transnational Threats Bashir had immunity from arrest penalty. She was also named chair
and International Crimes division. under customary international law of the Special Reference Group
Between these appointments, he by reason of his being a head on Migration and Community
acted as a criminal justice and of State. He also acted for the Integration in kwaZulu-Natal, a
counter-terrorism legal expert for SALC in challenging the South group formed to investigate the
the United Nations Office on Drugs African governments decision to immediate and underlying causes
and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. He withdraw from the Rome Statute, of attacks on migrants.
is also a World economic Forum and is representing the SALC in
(WeF) Young Global Leader the current Article 87(7) process ___
and served as vice-chair of the before the Court.
WeFs Global Agenda Council on
Terrorism. Du plessis is currently ___ klAus
a member of WeFs Council on rAckwItz
Fragility, Violence and Conflict.
NAvANEthEm NAvI Director, International Nuremberg
___ PIllAY principles Academy
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legal representative, Mr. Rackwitz on the Truth and Reconciliation African Human Rights Commission
was in overall charge of all Commission of Sierra Leone from (SAHRC), prior to which he had
managerial and administrative 2002-2004. Since 2000, she been SAHRC head of research for
matters, supporting the casework has also been a member of the over 13 years, mainly responsible
of Member States. Advisory Body on the Review of for the monitoring of economic
Resolution 1325 on Women, peace and social rights. past posts include
and Security. In addition, Sooka is those of researcher on criminal
___ the Director of the International justice at the University of kwaZulu-
Truth and Justice project (ITJp), Sri Natal, and law lecturer at the
Lanka, responsible for monitoring University of the Western Cape
YAsmIN and reporting on the war crimes (criminal procedures), Columbia
sOOkA of the past as well as ongoing University Law School, New York
human rights violations and abuses (African human rights systems)
executive Director, Foundation for in that country. In July 2010, and Ramapo College of New
Human Rights, Johannesburg Yasmin Sooka was appointed to Jersey (African politics and human
the three-member panel of experts rights). Mr. Thipanyane has written
advising the Secretary General widely on human rights issues and
Yasmin Sooka is the executive on accountability for war crimes presented conference papers
Director of the Foundation for committed during the final stages in over twenty countries across
Human Rights in South Africa, an of the war in Sri Lanka (report Africa, europe, America and Asia.
independent non-profit foundation published in May 2011). In June Admitted as an advocate of the
established in 1996 by president 2015, Sooka was appointed by High Court of Lesotho and South
Mandelas government and the the UN Secretary General to sit Africa, he also served on the
european Union. She is a leading on a three-member Independent project committee on child justice
human rights lawyer, activist and, in Review panel which investigated of the then SA Law Commission.
the light of her work on investigating Allegations of Sexual Abuse by He is a member of the executive
war crimes and reporting on post- Foreign Military Forces in the Committee of the Council for the
conflict sexual violencein Sri Lanka, Central African Republic, as well as Advancement of South Africas
is anacknowledged international the UN Response to the Allegations Constitution.
expert in the field of transitional (report submitted in December
justice, gender and international 2015). In June 2016, Ms. Sooka ___
war crimes. In 1995, Sooka was was appointed by the president
appointed by president Mandela of the UN Human Rights Council to
to serve on the South African Truth chair a three-person Commission DIrE
and Reconciliation Commission as on Human Rights in South Sudan, a tlADI
the Deputy Chair of the Human post she currently holds.
Rights Violations Committee, and professor of International Law,
played a key role in drawing ___ University of pretoria;
up the Commissions final report Special Adviser to the Minister of
handed over to president Mbeki International Relations and Co-
in March 2003. During the years tsElIsO operation; and Member of the UN
of apartheid, Sooka was the thIPANYANE International Law Commission
president of the South African
Chapter of the World Conference professor of International Law,
on Religion and peace (WCRp), University of pretoria; Dire Tladi holds the posts of
an interfaith body working for Special Adviser to the Minister of professor of international law in
peace and justice in South Africa. International Relations and Co- the Department of public Law
She also was a member of the operation; and Member of the UN and Institute for International
National Repatriation Committee International Law Commission and Comparative Law in Africa
for South African exiles, a body at the University of pretoria, and
that negotiated with the apartheid extraordinary professor in the public
government to repatriate South Tseliso Thipanyane is the CeO of Law Department of the University
African exiles. She was appointed the Safer South Africa Foundation, of Stellenbosch. He has served
by the United Nations to serve and former CeO of the South as principal State Law Adviser
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on International Law in the South across Africa, Asia, the Middle east,
African Department of International the Americas and the Balkans. He
Relations and Co-operation, and continues to vindicate the rights of
Legal Counsellor to the South Africa victims of past conflicts in the South
Mission to the United Nations. His African courts.
main academic specialisations are
in public international law, human ___
rights law, environmental law and
international criminal law. On 1
January 2012 he commenced a FrANs
five-year term as member of the vIlJOEN
United Nations International Law
Commission. Director, Centre for Human Rights;
professor of International Human
___ Rights Law
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CONTACT
BEttINA AmBAch
Director, Wayamo Foundation
Rietzestr.21, 10409 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 921 455 45
info@wayamo.com www.wayamo.com
info@theafricagroup.org www.theafricagroup.org