Establishing a Global Knowledge Network:
ISIS as a Threat and Legal Challenge and the Prevention of Recruitment

International Spring Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-29 April 2016

PROGRAM

 

Sunday, April 24

Arrival of participants

 

Monday, April 25: The ISIS Recruitment Process

Time

Topic - Speaker

9.00 – 9.30

Welcome and Introduction by course directors

9.30 – 10.15 

Young, desperate and Muslim - Who are the recruits?

Professor Rik Coolsaet (Ghent University, Belgium)

10.15 – 10.30

Q & A

10:30 – 10.45

Coffee break

10.45 – 11.30

ISIS recruitment strategies and females as special targets

Mrs Shereen Aziz Williams (Regional Community Cohesion Coordinator, Newport, Wales, UK)

11.30 – 11.45

Q & A

11.45 – 12.30

International Legal Framework and Fight Against Terrorism

Professor Davor Derenčinović (University of Zagreb)

12.30 – 12.45

Q & A

13.00 – 14.30

Reception (IUC)

Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00

Participant Presentations:

Professor Aaron Hermann, Australia's migration policies and counter terrorism challenges

dr. sc. Svetlana Paramonova, Social Reintegration of the Former ISIS-Fighters. Russian Experience

Student presentations:

Enna Lujinović and Marta Visocka: How young girls from EU decide to join ISIS

Nora Soliman: The position of women in ISIS

16.15 – 18.00

Dubrovnik Sightseeing

 

Tuesday, April 26: Legal answers to the recruitment by ISIS

Time

Topic - Speaker

9.00 – 9:45

The legal situation in the Germany

Professor Bettina Weißer (University of Münster, Germany)

9.45 – 10.00

Q & A

10.00 – 10.45 

 

The legal situation in the United Kingdom

Dr. David Lowe (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)

10.45 – 11.00

Q & A

11:00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00

Student presentations:

Andre von Horn: The legal response of France to the attacks in Paris

Janko Havaš: Janko Havaš: Dublin Regulation in light of Refugee Crisis

Kristýna Hořanská:  ISIS in the Czech Republic and the Czech Republic Security Strateg

12.00 – 13.45

Lunch break

14.00 – 14.45

U.S. efforts to counter violent extremism and the flow of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq

Maggie Nardi (Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb)

14.45 – 15.00

Q & A

15.30 – 18.00

Participant Presentations:

Edo Sujoldžić: The experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina in countering terrorism and the work of the OSCE Mission in B&H

Student presentations:

Josip Salamunović: The Phenomenology of ISIS - Battlefront Europe - Development of ISIS movement, individual terrorist modus operandi and EU perspectives of response

Amy Richards: The recruiting of young people to ISIS: Physicians going to ISIS

Evangleine Prichard: What makes ISIS a particulary dangerous group to Western Europe and it's allies

Pierre Henri: The drugs and ISIS

Michaela Frydrychová: ‘ISIS' cyber activities and their impact

 

 

Wednesday, April 27: ISIS in Action – Europe financing ISIS?

Time

Topic - Speaker

9.00 – 9:45

Establishing ICC jurisdiction over ISIS - theoretical and practical challenges

Ass.Prof. Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička/Ass.Prof. Maja Munivrana Vajda (University of Zagreb)

9.45 – 10.00

Q & A

10.00 – 10.45 

Funding conflict through cultural heritage – ISIS and illicit trafficking in cultural property

Peter B. Campbell (University of Southampton, UK)

10.45 – 11.00

Q & A

11:00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00

ISIS and Caucasus Region

Dr. Eliko Ciklauri-Lammich (Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany)

12.00 – 12.15

Q & A

12.30 – 14.30

Lunch break

14.45 – 16.15

Participant Presentations:

Ass.Prof. Marin Bonačić: A special tribunal – a viable solution to crimes committed by ISIS?

Sonja Borić:The subject of International Humanitarian Law in the context of the 'War on terror'

Student presentation: 

Domagoj Dananić: Protecting cultural heritage in ISIS areas

Sara Opačić: Child soldiers in ISIS

16.15 – 16.30

Coffee break

16.30 – 18.00

Student Presentations:

Maša Berić:Islamic State and the idea of statehood

Mitchell Verbunt: ISIS and Netherlands

Lucija Dozan: Usage of social networks and modern technologies in ISIS propaganda

Suzana Poljak: Punishing Public Incitement to Terrorism

Vladimira Levova: Re-integrating as a not-military mean against ISIS

Katja Butković: Economic consequences to the tourism caused by terrorism

 

Thursday, April 28: ISIS Members coming back – A challenge for justice systems

Time

Topic - Speaker

9.00 – 9:45

Punishment, Surveillance or Reintegration?

Professor Nora V. Demleitner (Washington and Lee University, USA)

9.45 – 10.00

Q & A

10.00 – 10.45 

Together against ISIS – police and justice cooperation in Europe

Dr. Christophe Paulussen (T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Netherlands)

10.45 – 11.00

Q & A

11:00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00

Participant presentation:
Lidija Horvat: Right to liberty of the persons accused for the terrorism

Student presentation:

Jana Brezovičova: Legal Regulation of Terrorism on the EU Level

12.00 – 12.15

Q & A

12.30 – 14.30

Lunch break

14.45 – 15.30

Fighting ISIS with measures against Organized Crime?

Professor Katalin Ligeti (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

15.30 – 15.45

Q & A

15.45 – 18.30

Participant Presentations:

Maja Serafin: UN-Regulations on Asset Freezing as a Countermeasure against Financing of ISIS

Anna Mosna: Laundering mechanisms in illicit trafficking of cultural goods: is a new legal framework needed

Student presentation:

Mia Šaka: Refugees point of view: How ISIS changed millions of lives

Lucija Ljubaj and Lucija Jurli: ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage and illegal tradein antiquities

Friday, April 29: Future Perspectives

Time

Topic - Speaker

9.00 – 9:45

The ICC as a Means for Fighting Terrorism?

Professor John Vervaele (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

9.45 – 10.00

Q & A

10.00 – 10.45 

Terrorism and the European Convention on Human Rights

Professor Ksenija Turković (European Court of Human Rights, France)

10.45 – 11.00

Q & A

11:00 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.30

The Post-conflict Situation in Syria

Professor Cenap Cakmak, (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey)

12.30 – 12.45

Q & A

12.45 – 13.15

The Future of Fighting Extremism in Europe

Dr. Marc Engelhart (Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany)

13.15 – 13.45

Closing Discussion

Moderators: Ass.Prof. Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička/Dr. Marc Engelhart

13.45 – 15.00

Closing Ceremony: Diplomas; Best student presentations

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, April 30:

Departure of participant

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