“Responsibility for War Crimes and Other Violations of IHL: What Are Possible Models for Adjudicating in Such Cases for Ukraine?”
1:00 – 11:20: Welcoming remarks
- Andryi Kostin, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy
- Vsevolod Kniaziev, Chairman of the Supreme Court
- Representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
- Representative of the National School of Judges
- Anna Adamska – Gallant, International Key Expert of EU Project “Pravo Justice” on judicial reform
- Marc Ellingstad, Director of the Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID Mission to Ukraine and Belarus
11:20 – 11:50 – Existing models for adjudicating war crimes cases
- Dariusz Sielicki, PhD, former international judge of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, EU legal reform adviser in Somalia
11:50 – 12:50 – Transitional justice in war crime cases – lessons learnt in the Balkan
- Mersudin Pružan, prosecutor of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Prosecutor’s Office, War Crime Division
- Marijan Bitanga, PhD, judge of the High Specialized Criminal Court of Croatia
- Anna Adamska – Gallant, PhD, former international judge of the Supreme Court of Kosovo
12:50 – 13:50 – International and hybrid courts as a tool of bringing justice
- Martin Hackett, member of the ACA, former prosecutor of EULEX, and of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Michael Newton, Professor of the Practice of Law, Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Vanderbilt University Law School
13:50 – 14:20 – Challenges related to war crimes cases adjudication in Ukrainian courts
- Yuriy Ponomarenko, Chairman of Criminal Law Department at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
14:20 – 14:50 – Perspectives of setting up a special international tribunal to punish the crimes committed against Ukraine
- Andriy Pasichnyk, Deputy Director of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ International Law Department
14:50 – 15:40 – Discussion on the applicability of various models of war crimes cases adjudication in Ukraine
15:40 – 16:00 – Closing remarks
Cosponsored by USAID, EU Project Pravo-Justice
