State Crimes and Retroactive Justice: History, Memory and Consolidating Peace

March 2, 1991

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Welcome

Dr. Jean Mayer

President, Tufts University

Moderator

Mr. Robert Daniels, EPIIC

Panelists

Mr. Pavel Bergmann

Chair, Political Club, Civic Forum; Spokesperson, Club of Social Democrats; Founding Member, Charter 77, Czechoslovakia; Co-Founder, Independent Socialist Movement; Survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Malthausen Nazi concentration camps

Mr. Claudio Grossman

Chilean human rights activist, exiled by the Pinochet regime; director of International Law Program and professor of law, American University

Dr. Edy Kaufman

Executive Director, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; co-chair, Israeli-Palestinian Committee for Human Rights; author, The Rise and Fall of Military Rule in Latin America

Dr. Ben Kiernan

Author, Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea and How Pol Pot Came to Power; professor of history, Yale University

Mr. Liu Binyan

Former Investigative Reporter, People's Daily, China; author, A Higher Kind of Loyalty and China's Hope, China's Crisis; Fellow, Princeton University

Dr. R. Bruce McColm

Executive director, Freedom House; former member, InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, OAS; consultant, US Senate Central American Peace Accords(Arias Plan)

Mr. Carlos Nino

Chief Advisor on human rights and democratic reform to President Raul Alfonsin, Argentina; director, Council for the Consolidation of Democracy; regular visiting professor, Yale University Law School

Ms. Barbara Rozycka

Polish human rights activist; member, Solidarity's Commission of Intervention and Lawfulness; founding member, Intervention Bureau of KOR(Committee to Defend Workers)

Mr. Leonid Volkov

Chair, Foreign Policy Commission, Social Democratic Association, Russia; member, Constitutional Commission, Committee on Human Rights and International Affairs Committee of the Supreme Soviet, RSFSR

Interlocutors

Dr. Diane Orentlicher
Mr. Joshua Rubenstein
Mr. Lawrence Weschler

Video Presentations specifically prepared for this symposium by

Dr. Yuri Afanasyev
Dr. Janos Kis
Mr. Oleg Rumyantsev