The Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia (IDH) holds on Thursday and Friday, at Saló de Graus of the Faculty of Law, a conference on the transition in the Arab countries, which will be closed by the political scientist Sami Naïr. It will count on the participation of other prominent specialists. The purpose of these lectures is to ‘make a critical revision of those two years of recent history, from the perspective of constitutional and human rights, law and international relationships, as well as geopolitics and safety’, explains Fernando Flores, co-director of the conference.
IDH is devoting considerable attention to the situation of human rights in the Arabic world and the humanitarian situation in the Maghreb and the Middle East, claims the director of the institution, Consuelo Ramón, who recalled that last year there were three conferences on the subject. She also announced that on 30 December, IDH has organized, in collaboration with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, an international conference on the legal and humanitarian situation of the Palestinian political prisoners arrested in Israel.
The new seminar, on Thursday (16:30), entitled ‘Arab Spring, a region in transition’ will be open with a conference of Haizam Amirah Fernández, principal researcher for the Mediterranean and Arab World of Elcano Royal Institute. At 18:00, a panel discussion on the international impact of the popular revolts will take place, and it will count on the participation of the major general Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, Director of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (CESEDEN); Antonio Ramiro, professor on International Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid; Carmen Pérez González, International Law professor at the University Carlos III (Madrid); and Raquel Vañó, researcher of the Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia.
Friday’s session will start at 10:00 with a panel discussion, which will involve Fernando Flores, professor of International Law at the Faculty of Valencia and member of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies; and also Georgina Higueras, journalist at El País. At 12:00, Sami Naïr will give the closure lecture. Sami Naïr, political scientist, philosopher, sociologist and French professor, is specialist in migratory flows and the creator of the concept co-development. Between 1997 and 1999, he served as an advisor to the Government of Lionel Jospin and until 2004; he was a member of the European Parliament. He is a professor on Political Sciences, Director of the Andalusí Mediterranean Centre (CMA) and professor-researcher at the University Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla). He guided Les temps modernes (Modern Times) together with Simone de Beauvoir and L’Evenément européen with Edgar Pissani.
Created in 2005, and currently led by the professor Consuelo Ramón, the Institute for Human Rights of the University of Valencia has received from the Ministry of Education the Mention of Excellence for its PhD Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. IDH received in 2008 financial aid within the programme Consolider-Ingenio 2010. The Institute takes part of a project in which participate twelve research groups from different Spanish Universities, coordinated by the Institute for Human Rights Bartolomé de las Casas of the University Carlos III Madrid. The project selected is entitled ‘The time of rights’ and the principal researcher has been the professor Gregorio Peces-Barba. Consolider-Ingenio 2010 is the main way of funding of the National Plan of Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 for high-quality projects. It was the first time that a team of researchers belonging to the legal field received an aid of this type, mainly aimed at scientific contexts away from Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Last update: 21 de november de 2012 14:30.
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