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 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
IN PURSUIT OF THE
RIGHT TO SELF-
DETERMINATION
edited by
Y. N. Kly, D. Kly
preface by
Richard Falk
"More than any recent occasion, the
First International Conference on the
Right to Self-determination & the
United Nations, held in Geneva
during the millennial year 2000,
dramatized the range of claims and
the severity of suffering associated
with their denial under a variety of
statist and geopolitical pretexts... a
truly historical contribution..."
From the Preface by  –Richard Falk

"This is a book with a purpose:  to
advance a proposal for considering
and resolving self-determination
conflicts."  
–Foreign Policy in Focus.  
In Pursuit of an
International Civil
Tribunal
on the Right to
Self-Determination
This second international conference
on the right to self-determination
sought to respond to deepening UN
acquiescence to the erosion of this
basic right, by seeking to re-enforce its
earlier understandings related to right
to self-determination, and the
institutional options for conflict
resolution and management between
groups within states. It addresses the
question of whether the establishment
of an International Civil Tribunal on the
Right to Self-determination might be
the most effective tool whereby
international civil society might
facilitate UN instruments and
mechanisms as it concerns the right to
self-determination.
INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND IMPUNITY:  
The Case of the
United States

“Best wishes for a
successful event,”
Message from former
President Jimmy Carter
to the organizers of the
March 2005 Conference
Contributors include Ramsey Clark,
Samir Amin, William Blum, Jan Myrdal,
Michael Parenti, Jean Bricmont, Les
Roberts, Genevieve Sevrin (Amnesty
International, France), Antoine Bernard
(International Federation of Human
Rights), Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of
Hiroshima and others ...
In September, 2005, an international conference
on the international issue of impunity for war
crimes and crimes against humanity was held at
the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale) in
Paris. Confronted with the US policies, its “war on
terrorism” and its disastrous impact on global
efforts to deepen and entrench the rule of law,
the Association for the Defence of International
Humanitarian Law, France (ADIF), in cooperation
with the International Federation of Human
Rights (FIDH), assembled leading human rights
intellectuals, historians, lawyers and NGO
representatives from the United States, Europe,
Latin America and the Middle East, to spearhead
international civil society’s response to this threat,
for the well-being and positive development of
humankind.  This is the English translation of its
proceedings.
The Regina
Seminar on the
Elimination
of Weapons of
Mass
Destruction
In the months preceding the Regina
Seminar, the issue of weapons of
mass destruction was of paramount
concern.  The United States, a nuclear
power, had launched a pre-emptive
attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, a
non-nuclear power, on the basis of its
contention that Iraq was in the process
of developing nuclear weapons, and
that if it succeeded, the world would be
threatened with their imminent use.  
The world was also  witnessing the
steady expansion of the list of nations
which have nuclear weapons capacity,
and the possibility of nuclear weapons
falling into the hands of terrorists.  This
was widely bruited throughout the West
as being an issue of paramount
concern and danger.  It was in this
context that the Regina Seminar sought
to bring together scholars who might
address the various orientations of the
civilizations particularly concerned at
this conjuncture of world events.
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