Weaving a Net of Accountability

Note:The conference program is still tentative. The program below is current as of March 11, 2010. You may also download (and redistribute!) our tri-fold brochure

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Time	Event
5:30-6:15pm	Interfaith service on torture View the service's program (PDF) Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School
6:30-7:15pm	Dinner for purchase at the The Refectory Café, located in the lower level of the Westbrook Building.
7:30 pm	Conference keynote address, *The Unresolved Legacy of Guantanamo* by Scott Horton, Contributing Editor of Harper’s Magazine and author of the blog “No Comment”, expert on international law and extraordinary rendition, and lecturer at Columbia Law School Love Auditorium, at Levine Science Research Center, Duke University (no charge)

Friday, April 9, 2010

All April 9 events are at John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, Duke University, and are free and open to the public.

Time	Event
8:30-9:00am	Continental breakfast
9:00-10:15am	Panel 1: North Carolina's role in the “global spider web” of extraordinary rendition to torture Gavin Simpson Perspective of the Council of Europe's lead investigator on extraordinary rendition (30 min) Christina Cowger Evidence assembled in NC and how state and local leaders have reacted (20 min) Questions (15 min)
10:15-10:30am	Coffee break
10:30-12:15pm	Panel 2: The Legal Framework of Extraordinary Rendition and Outlook for Restorative Justice Paula Kweskin, Taiyyaba Qureshi, and Marianne Twu; A history of international legal norms that protect against extraordinary rendition, obligations under the Convention Against Torture, and how international norms apply to state actors and bystanders (20 min) Margaret Satterthwaite Where North Carolina's hosting of extraordinary rendition flights fits into national and international law on ER (20 min) Steven Watt Current status of torture/rendition accountability efforts and their results; state secrets, Alien Tort Act, civil suits (20 min) Steven Edelstein Legal obligations of state and local officials (20 min) Questions (20 min)
12:15-1:30pm	Working Lunch. Edward Horgan — Holding the Irish Government accountable for its failures to uphold international laws (30 min)
1:30-2:30pm	Panel 3: The Moral Dimension of Extraordinary Rendition Bisher al-Rawi by teleconference from UK (25 min) Stephen Soldz Psychology of denial and accountability: breaking through the fog (25 min) Questions (10 min)
2:30-3:45pm	Panel 4: Lessons in Accountability Julia Hall Amnesty International International rendition/torture accountability movement and where NC fits in (20 min) Cynthia Brown Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission Lessons from Greensboro for grassroots accountability work in North Carolina (20 min) Lisa Magarrell International Center for Transitional Justice (20 min) Questions (15 min)
3:45-4:00pm	Coffee Break
3:45-5:00pm	Roundtable on a North Carolina extraordinary rendition accountability process: Here's what you can do Robin Kirk, Director, Duke Human Rights Center and Deborah Weissman, Reef Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at the University of North Carolina School of Law; panel chairs Tony Asion Allyson Caison Eric Muller Jennifer Rudinger Sarah Shields
5:00- ???	Social hour

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Note: The Saturday program is by invitation only.

9:00am-3:00pm

Working meeting to plan Citizens' Commission of Inquiry, which will create a formal record of North Carolina's role in extraordinary rendition and produce recommendations to local, state, and federal governments

This conference was made possible through the generous support of the Duke Human Rights Center, North Carolina Stop Torture Now, the University of North Carolina School of Law Immigration & Human Rights Policy Clinic, the Karl von der Heyden Endowment at Duke University, the Trent Foundation, the UNC Office of International Affairs and the UNC Center for Global Initiatives, Robert Seymour of Chapel Hill, T. D. Poole of Clayton, several anonymous donors, and co-sponsors.

For more information or to R.S.V.P, please contact NC Stop Torture Now at contact@ncstoptorturenow.org, or Duke Human Rights Center at rights@duke.edu or (919) 668-6511.