Syndicate: Truth and Reconciliation Conference: May 18-19-20, 2001 - Belgrade

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

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Subject: Truth and Reconciliation Conference: May 18-19-20, 2001 - Belgrade


The international conference "In Search of Truth and Responsibility -
Towards A Democratic Future", to be held in Belgrade on May 18-20
2001, will be the first such opportunity to discuss these issues since
the dramatic events of September 24 and October 5 2000.

The participation of a large number of experts from around the world,
the Balkans region and our country is not the only reason why this
conference is important. It also marks the launch of the long and
painful process of confronting the truth, examining the
responsibility, and ultimately working towards reconciliation in the
whole of south-east Europe. Most people in Yugoslavia and Serbia, as
well as experts in the field, are more willing than ever before to
face up to what has been happening in our most recent past. At the
same time, public awareness is growing ever stronger that if we do not
confront our past it will be impossible to bring about the necessary
democratic reforms and modernisation of our society as a whole.

The varied experiences of truth and reconciliation commissions from
Latin America, South Africa and Asia suggest that there is no
universal model for responding to the challenges of the past. Also
valuable are the diverse experiences of post-Communist eastern
European countries in embarking on the process of adopting democracy
and confronting their own pasts, with varying degrees of success.
Clearly, justice in times of transition is not an entity which can be
automatically replicated or applied.

However, there is a consensus: namely that, in both social and
political terms, one cannot strive towards a better future if burdened
by the lies and concealed crimes which strike at the heart of humanity
itself.

The conference "In Search of Truth and Responsibility - Towards A
Democratic Future" will give us the chance to examine and reconsider
the various ways in which truth and reconciliation commissions have
worked. This in turn will have a far-reaching and profound impact on
the wider public debate about this issue within Yugoslav society.

Over a hundred experts from home and abroad have confirmed thus far
their participation in the event. Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica and the director of the Institute for Justice in Transition,
Alex Boraine, will open the conference.



Radio & TV B92 organize

Truth and Reconciliation Conference:
May 18-19-20, 2001 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) - Belgrade

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH AND RESPONSIBILITY-
TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE



Friday, May 18

16:00
Registration

17:00
Opening:

- - Vojislav Kostunica *, president of FR Yugoslavia
- - Alex Boraine *, president of the International Centre for
Transitional Justice and vice-president of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission for South Africa

18:00 - 19:00
Reception

Saturday, May 19

09:00 - 11:00
Serbia at a Crossroads: Why is it necessary to confront the past?

- - Vojin Dimitrijevic * - Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
- - Misha Glenny *- the author of the books "The Fall of Yugoslavia" and
"The Balkans 1804 - 1999"
- - Srdjan Bogosavljevic* - Presentation of Strategic Marketing Research

Chair: Veran Matic

* confirmed attendance

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:30
How to Confront the Past: The Experiences of Others

- - Ivan Vejvoda * - Fund for an Open Society
- - Francisco Guterres *, National Reconciliation Commission of Timor
Lorosae
- - Aryeh Neier * - Open Society Institute
- - Jose Miguel Vivanco *, a Chilean lawyer, Director of the Americas
Division of Human Rights Watch
- - Radmila Nakarada, Truth &  Reconciliation Commission for Yugoslavia

Chair: Zarko Puhovski
Rapporteur: Pol van Zyl

13:30 - 15:00
Lunch

15.00 - 18.00
Truth and Justice: Legal issues in the International and Local Context

- - Leposava Karamarkovic, President of the Serbian Supreme Court
- - Momcilo Grubac*, Federal Minister of Justice
- - Abdul Tejan - Cole*, Sierra Leone Bar Association, Campaign for Good
Governance and University of Sierra Leone
- - Hans Holthuis * - Registrar of the ICTY
- - Jakob Finci * - Truth & Reconciliation (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- - Diane Orentlicher * - professor of Law at American University

Chair: Ivan Jankovic
Rapporteur: Jadranka Jelincic


Saturday Evening - Concert "Serbia: Sounds global"
Cultural Centre B92 - Cinema Rex

If you are interested in attending the Concert please confirm when you
register for the Conference
 Sunday, May 20

10:00-12:30
Responsibility and Reconciliation

- - Goran Svilanovic * - Minister of Foreign Affairs of FR Yugoslavia
- - Albie Sachs * - Justice of the Constitutional Court, South Africa
- - Adam Michnik * - publicist, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
- - Natasa Kandic * - Humanitarian Law Fund
- - Jacques Paul Klein * - Special Representative of the Secretary
General and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, UNMIBH

Chair: Sonja Liht
Rapporteur: Vesna Terselic

12:30- 14:00
Lunch

14:00-16:30
Reparation and Reform of Institutions

- - Zoran Djindjic* - Premier of the Serbian Government
- - Filip Vujanovic * - Premier of the Montenegrin Government
- - Slobodan Homen * - Otpor
- - Freimut Duve * - OSCE Media Representative, Germany
- - Drinka Gojkovic * - Documentation Centre 'Truth, Responsibility and
Reconciliation'
- - Laslo Sekelj * - sociologist, Institute for European Studies

Chair: Barbara Davis
Rapporteur: Biljana Kovacevic-Vuco

16:30- 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:30

Conclusions

- - Alex Boraine *- Vice president of the Commission for Truth &
Reconciliation of South Africa, now president of the International
Centre for Transitional Justice
- - Dragoljub Micunovic * - President of the Chamber of Citizens of the
Federal Parliament
- - Veran Matic * - ANEM Chairman & Editor in Chief of RTV B 92

List of participants:

- - Abouzeid Frances*, Media Development Loan Fund
- - Ackovic Dragoljub*- Rominterpress
- - Ahmetaj Nora* - lawyer
- - Alomerovic Sefko - Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Sandzak
- - Anastasijevic Duska* - Humanitarian Law Fund
- - Antic Cedomir - historian
- - Asiel Isak - Rabbi of Yugoslavia
- - Barovic Nikola - attorney at law
- - Batic Vladan* - Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia
- - Bettyar Ivan*, Senior Political Affairs Officer, UN Liaison Office,
Belgrade
- - Bigovic Radovan - Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Serbian Orthodox
Church in Belgrade, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
- - Biserko Sonja* - Helsinki Human Right Committee, Belgrade
- - Bishop Artemije - Eparchy of Raska & Prizren region
- - Bishop Lavrentije * - Episcope of the Eparchy (the Episcopate) of
Sabac & Valjevo region
- - Bogosavljevic Srdjan* - Strategic Marketing, Belgrade
- - Bonnot Maurice*, Head of Mission of Council of Europe, Belgrade
- - Boraine Alex*- Vice president of the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission for South Africa, now International Centre for Transitional
Justice
- - Bostrom Ann Marie* - Swedish Helsinki Committee, Belgrade
- - Bratuljevic Natalija* - Swedish Helsinki Committee, Belgrade
- - Broz Svetlana * - president of the Collegiate Body of the Children's
Embassy, Sarajevo
- - Butler Tom* , Harvard University, Boston
- - Cerovic Aida - journalist, Novi Pazar
- - Countryman Thomas* , Director, South cental European Affairs,
Department of State, Washington D.C.
- - Curgus Velimir *- author, Fund for an Open Society, Belgrade
- - Darmanovic Srdjan* - Centre for Democracy (CEDEM), Podgorica
- - Davies Jackie*, OneWorld International, London
- - Davis Barbara* - Chief of Mission, UNHCHR in FRY (Feb.1998-Feb.2001)
- - Debeljak Jasmina* - Swedish Helsinki Committee, Belgrade
- - Dereta Miljenko - director, Civil Initiatives, Belgrade
- - Dimic Ljubodrag - historian, member of the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission, Belgrade
- - Dimitrijevic Vojin* - lawyer, director of Belgrade Centre for Human
Rights, Belgrade
- - Dizdarevic Srdjan* - Helsinki Human Rights Committee of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Sarajevo
- - Djeric Vladimir*- Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgrade
- - Djindjic Zoran* - President of the Government of the Republic of
Serbia, Belgrade
- - Djukanovic Zoran* - Press Now, Amsterdam
- - Djukic Slavoljub* - journalist and publicist, member of the Truth &
Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Duhacek Dasa* - Women's Studies, Belgrade
- - Dujovic Sasa - Union of the Disabled War Veterans, Belgrade
- - Duve Freimut* - OSCE Media Representative, Wien
- - Finci Jakob* - president of the Citizen Association 'Truth and
Reconciliation', Sarajevo
- - Fjodorov Petar* - President of the Concentration Camp Prisoners'
Union from the former Yugoslav Republics, Belgrade
- - Galo Igor* - Homo, Pula
- - Glenny Misha* - historian and journalist, London
- - Gojkovic Drinka* - Documentation Centre "Truth, Responsibility and
Reconciliation", Belgrade
- - Grubac Momcilo* - Federal Minister of Justice, Belgrade
- - Guterres Francisco* - National Reconciliation Commission of Timor
Lorosae, East Timor
- - Harringer Anne*, International Monitor Institute, Los Angeles
- - Hedl Drago* - Feral Tribune, Zagreb
- - Hellman Matias* - International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, Coordinator for FR Yugoslavia, Outreach Programme, United
Nations, The Hague
- - Henderson Gwyneth*, Media Consultant, London
- - Holthuis Hans* - Registrar of the ICTY, The Hague
- - Homen Slobodan* - lawyer, Otpor, Belgrade
- - Hrnjica Sulejman, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission,
Belgrade
- - Hysa Ylber* - journalist, Koha Ditore, Pristina
- - Ilic Dejan*- Samizdat B92, Belgrade
- - Ilic Vladimir*, sociologist - Belgrade University, Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights, Belgrade
- - Iso Rusi * - journalist, Skoplje
- - Ivancic Viktor- Feral Tribune, Split
- - Janjic Sava Father - monk, Decani Monastery
- - Jankovic Jasna* - "Catharsis", B92, Belgrade
- - Jankovic Ivan* - Director of the Centre for Anti-War Action,
Belgrade
- - Jelincic Jadranka* - Programme Director, Fund for an Open Society,
Belgrade
- - Josipovic Ivo - Commission for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal,
Zagreb
- - Jusufspahic Hamdija* -Belgrade Mufti, Belgrade
- - Kandic Natasa* - sociologist, director of Humanitarian Law Fund,
Belgrade
- - Karamarkovic Leposava - President of the Serbian Supreme Court,
Belgrade
- - Kazic Hazim* - Citizen Association "Truth and Reconciliation",
Sarajevo
- - Khalevinski Igor*, Head of the United Nations Liaison Office,
Belgrade
- - Klein Jacques Paul *, Special Representative of the Secretary
General and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, UNMIBH, Sarajevo
- - Kostunica Vojislav*- President of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Belgrade
- - Kovacevic Djuro* - historian, Institute for European Studies,
Belgrade
- - Kovacevic Vuco Biljana* - lawyer, director of Yugoslav Lawyers'
Committee for Human Rights, Belgrade
- - Kovacevic Zivorad* - philologist/diplomat, European Movement in
Serbia, Belgrade
- - Kritz Neil* - United States Institute for Peace, Washington, D.C.
- - Ladjevic Petar* - Adviser for Refugees, Cabinet of the President of
FRY, Belgrade
- - Liht Sonja* - President of the Managing Board, Fund for an Open
Society, Belgrade
- - Ljajic Rasim- Federal Minister for ethnic and national communities,
Belgrade
- - Logar Svetlana* - Strategic Marketing, Belgrade
- - Lojpur Aleksandar *- lawyer, associate in East-West Institute,
member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Mala Naile* - Albanian language editor, Faculty of Philology,
Belgrade University, Belgrade
- - Maliqi Shkelzen - philosopher, Pristina
- - Mehta Vera*, Political Affairs Officer, UN Liaison Office, Belgrade
- - Michnik Adam* - publicist, Editor in Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza,
Warsaw
- - Micunovic Dragoljub*- President of the Chamber of Citizens of the
Federal Assembly, Belgrade
- - Mijatovic Bosko, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission,
Belgrade
- - Milasinovic Natasa*, International Monitor Institute, Los Angeles
- - Miljanic Ana* - Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
- - Milosevic Branislava*, OneWorld International, London
- - Miocinovic Mirjana - theatrologist, Belgrade
- - Muller Alexander Samuel - Legal Adviser, Registry of ICTY, the Hague
- - Musliu Fahri - journalist, VOA correspondent from Belgrade
- - Nakarada Radmila* - sociologist, Institute for European Studies,
member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Nalic Gradimir* - lawyer, Adviser in the Human Rights and Missing
Persons Department, Cabinet of the President of FRY, Belgrade
- - Neier Aryeh* - President of Open Society Institute (OSI), New York
- - Nesic Dobrosav* - Human Rights Committee, Leskovac
- - Nevzati Orhan* - lawyer, Belgrade
- - Nikiforov Anton*, Special Adviser, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY,
Belgrade
- - Nikolic Milan - Centre for Alternative Studies, Belgrade
- - Ognjenovic Vida - novelist, Serbian PEN Centre, Belgrade
- - Orentlicher Diane* - professor of Law at American University, New
York
- - Palavestra Predrag, literary historian, member of the Serbian PEN
Centre, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Pavicevic Borka* - Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade
- - Pejic Jelena* - lawyer, Geneva
- - Perovic Latinka - historian, Director of the Institute for Modern
History, Belgrade
- - Petovar Tanja*, International IDEA, Brussels
- - Popov Nebojsa* - sociologist, Institute for Philosophy and Social
Theory, Editor in Chief of the magazine Republika, Belgrade
- - Popovic Olgica - historian, Faculty of Law, Belgrade
- - Popovic Radomir - Archpriest, Faculty of Theology, Belgrade
- - Prodanovic Cedomir* - Croatian Helsinki Centre, Law Centre, Zagreb
- - Prpa Branka* - historian, Institute for Contemporary History,
Belgrade
- - Puhovski Zarko* - Croatian Helsinki Committee, Zagreb
- - Pulja Gazmend - Helsinki Human Rights Committee, Pristina
- - Pusic Zoran* - Civil Human Rights Committee, Zagreb
- - Radic Nebojsa* - Assistant Secretary, Federal Secretariat of
Information, Belgrade
- - Remzi Lani * - journalist, Media Centre, Tirana
- - Rugova Ibrahim - president of the Democratic Kosovo Alliance,
Pristina
- - Sachs Albie* - Justice of the Constitutional Court, Jochanesburg
- - Samardzic Nebojsa* - attorney at law, ANEM legal service, Belgrade
- - Samardzic Slobodan* - Adviser of the president of FR Yugoslavia,
Belgrade
- - Savic Obrad*- Belgrade circle, Belgrade
- - Sekelj Laslo* - sociologist, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade
- - Sheholli Fatmir* - publicist and journalist, editor of Radio
Contact, Pristina
- - Silber Laura* - Open Society Institute, New York
- - Staal Paul* - Press Now, Amsterdam
- - Stankovic Zoran, doctor of medicine, expert for judicial medicine,
member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Stojanovic Svetozar, philosopher, member of the Truth &
Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Strbac Savo* - Veritas, Centre for Collecting Documents and
Information, Belgrade
- - Svilanovic Goran*- Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgrade
- - Tanaskovic Darko, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission,
Belgrade
- - Tarle Zvonko* - director, Radio Contact, Pristina
- - Tejan-Cole Abdul* - Sierra Leone Bar Association, Campaign for Good
Governance and University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
- - Terselic Vesna* - Croatian Anti-War Campaign, Centre for Peace
Studies, Zagreb
- - Thompson Mark* - International Crisis Group, London
- - Todorovic Branko* - Helsinki Committee of Republic of Srpska,
Bijeljina
- - Towle Richard* - OHCHR, Belgrade Office
- - Trajkovic Momcilo*- president of the Federal Committee for Kosovo &
Metohija, Pristina
- - Ugricic Sreten* - author, Belgrade
- - van Lopik Eleonore* - Dordrecht Balcan Committee, Mijnsheerenland
- - van Zyl Paul* - Secretary of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission,
Columbia University, New York
- - Varadi Tibor - lawyer, Professor of CEU, Senior Adviser of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgrade
- - Vasovic Mirjana - psychologist, Institute for Social Research and
member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Vegel Laslo - author, Fund for an Open Society, Novi Sad
- - Vejvoda Ivan* - Executive Director of Fund for an Open Society,
Belgrade
- - Velmar Jankovic Svetlana, author, member of Serbian PEN Centre,
member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Vivanco Jose Miguel* - Chilean lawyer, Director of the Americas
Division of Human Rights Watch, New York
- - Vojvodic Mihajlo - historian, former Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy, member of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Belgrade
- - Vojvodic Mirjana*, philosopher, Organization of Civil Initiatives,
Nis
- - Vujanovic Filip* - President of the Montenegrin Government,
Podgorica
- - Vukovic Djordjije - literary historian, member of the Association of
literary authors of Serbia, member of the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission, Belgrade
- - Vukovic Sava Bishop - member of the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission, Belgrade
- - Wierzbicka Malgorzata, Cultural Attache in the Embassy of Poland,
Belgrade
- - Wuori Matti*, MEP, Rapporteur for human rights in the world,
European Parliament, Helsinki
- - Zajovic Stasa - Women in Black, Belgrade




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