Panelists
Panelists
Opening of the Forum. High-level Segment
Ararat Mirzoyan
In 2000, he graduated from the Faculty of History of the Yerevan State University with Bachelor’s Degree. In 2002, he received a Master’s Degree. In 2004 he graduated from the State Management Academy of the Republic of Armenia receiving a specialization in Public Administration and Local self-government. He holds a PhD in History from the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
Ararat Mirzoyan
Since August 19, 2021, H.E. Ararat Mirzoyan is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.
In 2000, he graduated from the Faculty of History of the Yerevan State University with Bachelor’s Degree. In 2002, he received a Master’s Degree. In 2004 he graduated from the State Management Academy of the Republic of Armenia receiving a specialization in Public Administration and Local self-government. He holds a PhD in History from the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.More
UN Under-Secretary-General, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
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UN Under-Secretary-General, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Alice Wairimu Nderitu of Kenya is the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Ms. Nderitu is a recognized voice in the field of peacebuilding and violence prevention, having led as mediator and senior adviser in reconciliation processes. She served as Commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission in Kenya, as well as Founding Member and co-Chair of the Uwiano Platform for Peace, a prevention agency linking early warning to early response. She was also one of the founders of Community Voices for Peace and Pluralism, a network of African women professionals preventing, transforming and solving violent, ethnic, racial and religious conflicts More
Scholars (IAGS); Associate Professor of International Law
Dr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, an award-winning teacher of International Humanitarian Law, Public International Law and Legal Research. Professor O’Brien is President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and a member of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee.
Professor O’Brien’s research examines the connection between human rights and the genocide process; and sexual and gender-based crimes against women in atrocities.More
Scholars (IAGS); Associate Professor of International Law
Dr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia, an award-winning teacher of International Humanitarian Law, Public International Law and Legal Research. Professor O’Brien is President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and a member of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee.
Professor O’Brien’s research examines the connection between human rights and the genocide process; and sexual and gender-based crimes against women in atrocities.More
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi is the Chair of GAAMAC. She is a former Judge and President of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She is currently the President of the Assembly of State Parties of the ICC and President of the Latin American Society of International Law. She has extensive diplomatic experience and expertise in international humanitarian and human rights law. Among other functions, she has been Special Representative of Argentina to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Director General for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and legal adviser at the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations in New York.More
Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC)
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi is the Chair of GAAMAC. She is a former Judge and President of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She is currently the President of the Assembly of State Parties of the ICC and President of the Latin American Society of International Law. She has extensive diplomatic experience and expertise in international humanitarian and human rights law. Among other functions, she has been Special Representative of Argentina to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Director General for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina and legal adviser at the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations in New York.More
Ambassador Federico Villegas is a lawyer and career diplomat. He entered the foreign service of Argentina with honours in 1993. He was appointed Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva in March 2020, after having been Ambassador of Argentina in Mozambique since 2016, where he opened the Embassy of Argentina. In Argentina, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was twice Director General of Human Rights (2005–2007 and 2012–2015).
Ambassador Federico Villegas is a lawyer and career diplomat. He entered the foreign service of Argentina with honours in 1993. He was appointed Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva in March 2020, after having been Ambassador of Argentina in Mozambique since 2016, where he opened the Embassy of Argentina. In Argentina, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was twice Director General of Human Rights (2005–2007 and 2012–2015).More
Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-recurrence
Fabián Salvioli (Argentina) is a human rights lawyer and professor. He has lectured in many countries and universities across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Mr. Salvioli has authored several books and articles on international human rights law. He was member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee between 2009 and 2016, and its President between 2015 and 2016. Mr. Salvioli served twice as member and three times as president of Ad-Hoc Arbitration Courts on Monetary Reparations, within the Friendly Settlement Mechanism of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In May 2018, he was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.
Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-recurrence
Fabián Salvioli (Argentina) is a human rights lawyer and professor. He has lectured in many countries and universities across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. Mr. Salvioli has authored several books and articles on international human rights law. He was member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee between 2009 and 2016, and its President between 2015 and 2016. Mr. Salvioli served twice as member and three times as president of Ad-Hoc Arbitration Courts on Monetary Reparations, within the Friendly Settlement Mechanism of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In May 2018, he was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.
Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Associate Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy
Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Associate Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy
Evangelos (Angelos) Syrigos is an Associate Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy at the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. He was born in 1966 in Athens. He is a graduate of the Law Schools of the National University of Athens and of the University of Bristol, England, where in 1994 he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of Public International Law. He has served as Secretary General of Population and Social Cohesion of the Greek Ministry of Interior (August 2012 and May 2015) and Secretary for Intercultural Education and Greek Studies Abroad of the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs (2007-2009). On July 7, 2019 he was elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament. He was swornMore
Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Verene A. Shepherd, is a Social Historian, Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination on Racial Discrimination, Director of the Centre for Reparation Research and the immediate past University Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies at The University of the West Indies. She spent 5 years as a member of the UN’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, 2 as Chair. A published author, she has written several books, among them, Lucille Mathurin Mair(2020), Introduction to Reparation for Secondary Schools (2021), Appleton Estate: From the Dickinson Family to the Campari Group: A Short History(2022), I want to Disturb my Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery,More
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is the Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. Before this, she was the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she also directed the master’s program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and founded the world’s first academic, graduate-level Genocide Prevention Certificate Program. She is former President of Genocide Watch, former First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and founder of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, which brings genocide prevention training to the global grassroots. She received her MA and PhD inMore
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey is the Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. Before this, she was the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she also directed the master’s program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and founded the world’s first academic, graduate-level Genocide Prevention Certificate Program. She is former President of Genocide Watch, former First Vice President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and founder of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, which brings genocide prevention training to the global grassroots. She received her MA and PhD inMore
