About the author(s):
Rogier is a researcher at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) and works at the Dutch National Prosecutor’s Office. He holds LL.M-degrees from Utrecht University and the University of Nottingham. Before taking up his current positions, he was an associate legal officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and a legal adviser at the International Humanitarian Law Division of the Netherlands Red Cross.
Rogier is an adjunct-lecturer at the Hague University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches international humanitarian law, and he co-convenes the Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict.
In two and a half weeks time three IHL conferences take place on the same day(s). Besides the Bruges Colloquium on selected issues of “vulnerabilities” in times of armed conflicts (on 17-18 October 2013) that was reported on earlier on this blog, the following conferences also take place on the 17th of October:
– The Irish Red Cross organises a conference on Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law in Dublin. See here for information, and here for the programme.
– The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs organises its yearly conference on the topic of Protection of civilian populations in situations of armed conflict. See here for information, and here for the programme.
In addition, a couple of days earlier, on 15 October 2013, the T.M.C. Asser Institute hosts this Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict event: a book launch of the Liber Amicorum in Memory of Avril McDonald “Armed Conflict and International Law: In Search of the Human Face”, with various speakers and a debate.
All the above interesting events can be attended free of charge, but require registration.