You are invited to the International Conference on Genocide Prevention
Israel - From Local Commemoration to Global Integration.
17-18 November 2009
The major aim of the conference and its events is to connect local
Israeli efforts and concerns to the global research and initiatives
current in the prevention of genocide. The conference endeavours to
bring together concerned global citizens from a variety of sectors in
order to encourage a well founded and creative response to addressing
issues around genocide.
The two-day conference will include keynote speakers and panel
discussions with academics, scholars and genocide experts from around
the world as well as interactive workshops, genocide survivors
testimonies, films, exhibitions, music and artistic performances.
Please RSVP as places are limited: [log in to unmask]
Tuesday, November 17th 2009
Naftali Building
Room 003
08:30 Coffee and Cake
09:00 media montage
9:15- 10:45
1st Panel: The Genocide Convention- relevant today?
Chair : William Tall, Director The United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, Israel
Adv. Sigall Horovitz, Hebrew University and the International Criminal
Tribunal Rwanda
Yoni Alsheh, Open University
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, United Nations Division
11:00- 12:00
Conference opening speech by Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Avraham Harman
Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University and Yad Vashem
Chair: Prof. Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University
LUNCH
13.00- 14.45 Room 527
2nd Panel: The 7th Year of the Genocide in Darfur- Is Africa Different?
Chair: Prof Yehuda Bauer
Prof. Fred Grunfeld, Human Rights Center, Maastricht University
Dr. Beni Neuberger, Faculty of Sociology, Open University
Dr. Galia Sabar, Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel
Aviv University
Bnai Darfur
Dr Irit Bek, Tel Aviv University
15.15- 16:45 – Room 527
3rd Panel: International Initiatives in Genocide Prevention and Awareness
Chair: Rav Melchior
Dr James Smith, CEO Aegis Trust, UK
Dr. Amos Avgar, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
Executive President International Development Program
Hedi Freid, Swedish Peace Prize recipient
18.00- 20.00 Evening Cultural Event – Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Preview of the film The Last Survivor in the presence of director
Michael Pertnoy, Righteous Pictures, U.S (www.righteouspictures.com)
Itai Engel, journalist
Adam Bashar , Darfuri activist and Hedi Freid, Holocaust activist and
Swedish peace prize recipient
Wednesday, November 18th 2009
-Naftali Building
08:30 Coffee and Cake
09.00-09.45- Room 003
Opening Presentation
Prof. Dina Porat and Dr. Issac Lubelsky, The Stephen Roth Institute for
the Study of Anti-Semitism, Tel Aviv University
10.00-11.30- Room 527
Roundtable- Local Initiatives in assisting Genocide Survivors in Israel-
Are there special needs?
Chair: Yiftach Milo, Ben Gurion University
Dr Martin Auerbach, Amcha, psycho-social services for Holocaust survivors
Natalie Rubin, ASSAF – Psycho-social services for refugees
Bnai Darfur
Prison Social Services
12.00- 13.30
Activism on Darfur Workshop
LUNCH
14.00- 15.30- Room 527
5th Panel- Introducing Genocide into the Education Curriculum (English)
Chair: Prof. Rachel Erhard, Constantiner School of Education
Prof. Philip Spencer, Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights,
Conflict and Mass Violence, Kingston, U.K
Prof. Suzanne Rutland, The University of Syndey, Australia
Dr. Jack Nusan Porter, Treasurer of the International Association of
Genocide Scholars
16.00- 17.30- Room 527
Roundtable- Introducing Genocide into the Education Curriculum (Hebrew)
Chair: Dr. Doron Avraham, Bar Ilan University
Position Paper: Prof. Yair Auron, Open University, Genocide Faculty
Lily Chernyak Hai
Shulamit Imber, Pedagogical Director of the International School of
Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
Ministry of Education representatives
18.00- 20.00- Room 527
Closed: Survivor Workshop
Hosted by Dr Martin Auerbach, Amcha, Dr Yitzhak Mendelson, Hedi Freid
18:30 Cultural Event
Bruno Stevens, international photojournalist presents his images from
Darfur
Local Darfuri filmmakers screen their stories
The Academic Committee at Tel Aviv University:
Dr. Sarit Bensimhon Peleg
Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy
Dr. Isaac Lubelsky
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti- Semitism
and Racism
Prof. Rachel Erhard
Constantiner School of Education
Yehonatan Alsheh, (Open University)
The Organizing Committee:
Romi Kaplan
Nikki Levitan
Righteous Pictures
Yiftach Milo
Lisa Richlen
Jean- Marc Liling
Conference sponsors include:
The Pears Foundation (UK)
JDC
The Aegis Trust (UK)
Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti- Semitism
and Racism of Tel Aviv University
Updates on the conference and information on other events can be found
on www.couragetocare.org.il
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