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Program

10:00–10:30 Reception and registration

10:30–10:45 Greetings

Dr. Tomer Broude Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights,

Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Gabriel Motzkin Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Representative Konrad‐Adenauer‐Stiftung Israel

Prof. Charles Greenbaum Conference Committee Chair; James Marshall Professor (emeritus)

of Social Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10:45–12:15 I: Psychological effects of armed conflict

Presentations: Prof. Simha Landau

Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ms. Shira Dvir‐Gvirsman

PhD Candidate, Department of Communication, Hebrew University of

Jerusalem

The effects of exposure to violence on aggressive behavior:

The case of Arab and Jewish children in Israel

Prof. Shifra Sagy

Dr. Orna Braun‐Lewensohn

Conflict Management & Resolution Program, Ben‐Gurion University

Coping resources as explanatory factors of stress reactions during missile

attacks: Comparing Jewish and Arab Bedouin adolescents in Israel

Prof. Eyal Ben‐Ari

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Facing child soldiers, moral issues, and “real soldiering”:

Anthropological perspectives on professional armed forces

12:15–13:30 Recess

13:30–15:00 II: Child soldiers

Presentations: Ms. Marta Prucnal

PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University, Cracow; Visiting Researcher, Max

Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,

Heidelberg

International legal standards of the protection of children from participation

in hostilities

Dr. Hilly Moodrick‐Even Khen

Sha’arei Mishpat College

Defence of and defence from child terrorists – the dual role of international

law

Ms. Susanna Greijer

PhD candidate, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence

The recruitment of children into armed groups and forces:

An international crime

15:30–17:00 III: Rehabilitating child victims

Presentations: Prof. Nathaniel (Nati) Laor

Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Mr. Leo Wollmer

Cohen‐Harris Center for Trauma and Disaster Prevention

Alleviating trauma and improving resilience in children facing war

and terrorism

Ms. Katharine Williamson

Associate Consultant, Child Frontiers, New York

Transitional justice and children’s engagement with violence and conflict

Ms. Erica Gaston

Open Society Institute, Kabul

Dr. Rebecca Wright

Human Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium, Kabul

Mitigating the effects of conflict on female‐headed families through

warring‐party assistance mechanisms

17:30–18:45 IV: Keynote Address

Address: Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy

Special Representative of the Secretary‐General of the United Nations for

Children and Armed Conflict

Protecting children during armed conflict ‐ the response of the

international community

Monday, 7 JUNE 2010

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky St., Jerusalem

09:30–11:00 V: Protection of children – institutional perspectives

Presentations: Prof. Carolyn Hamilton

Director, Children’s Legal Centre, University of Essex, England

Administrative detention of children for security purposes

Ms. Ann Linnarson

Child Protection Officer, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy

Ms. Vanessa Sedletzki

Child Rights Officer, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy

Independent human rights institutions for children: A potential actor for the

protection of the rights of children and their families during armed conflict?

Ms. Helen Hamzei

PhD Fellow and Lecturer, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies,

University of Leiden, Holland

Child war victims before the International Criminal Court:

Avenue to justice for the most vulnerable?

11:30–12:45 VII: Keynote Address

Address: Prof. Jaap Doek

Former Chairperson, United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

The gap between international standards and their implementation in the

protection of children and families in armed conflict

12:45–14:00 Recess

14:00–15:30 VI: Protecting children and families: some local perspectives

Presentations: Prof. Mooli Lahad

Department of Psychology, Tel Hai Academic College

When parents feel they can't protect their children

Dr. Daphna Golan

Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israeli organizations that defend Palestinian families’ rights:

Gender perspectives of language, time and space

Dr. Ya’ir Ronen

School of Social Work, Ben‐Gurion University

The use of children's rights discourse in relation to the Palestinian‐Israeli

conflict in light of Gandhian and Levinasian thought

15:45–17:00 VIII: Concluding roundtable discussion

Discussants: Prof. Charles Greenbaum, Prof. Jaap Doek, Prof. Carolyn Hamilton