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DECEMBER 2012
Celebration of the 40th anniversary of ISISC
On December 1, 2012, ISISC celebrated its 40th anniversary with a ceremony under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy. The unveiling of a plaque sent for the occasion by the President of the Italian Republic was followed by the keynote speech of the Italian Minister of Justice and by the introductory remarks of the Mayor of Siracusa. After a musical interlude by a string quartet, the President of the Institute, Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, delivered a presentation on the 40 years of history and activities of the Institute. Celebratory speeches from a number of national and international authorities closed the “Celebration of the 40th anniversary of ISISC”, including the First President of the Italian Court of Cassation, the Prosecutor General of the Italian Court of Cassation and the United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. For further information, please visit the relevant section of the website.
NOVEMBER 2012
Shari’a Law and Military Operations
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OCTOBER 2012
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Technical Assistance Program in Support of the Bahrain Ministry of Interior for Law Enforcement and Police Officers The session of the “Technical Assistance Program in Support of the Bahrain Ministry of Interior for Law Enforcement and Police Officers” organized between 3 and 23 October, for 18 participants, was comprised of 10 days of classes and trainings in Siracusa, including a visit to a detention center. The training sessions at ISISC in Siracusa were conducted by academics, former and current judges, prosecutors and other practitioners who are leading figures in their profession, among whom was a Special Agent of the FBI from the United States of America. This part was followed by a study tour, including visits to the Italian Police Unit for the Protection of Public Order and to the Special Operation Department (ROS) of the Carabinieri in Rome (Italy) and visits to Eurojust, Europol and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague (The Netherlands). For further information, please visit the relevant section of the website. |
As a result of the agreement between the NATO School and ISISC, a fifth consecutive seminar was held on “Shari’a Law and Military Operations”. For the third time, the seminar took place at the ISISC headquarters, rather than at the headquarters of the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany. The course, held between November 18 and November 24, addressed 45 NATO officers that will soon be deployed in hot post-conflict scenarios of countries of Islamic Law, as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Somalia and the Horn of Africa. The goal of this course was to provide instruction to military officers, legal advisors, operational planners, political and policy advisors on Shari’a law and its possible implications on military operations in Islamic States. Ten internationally preeminent scholars offered an introduction to Shari’a Law, specifically discussing crime and punishment in the Shari’a, law of armed conflict, religiously motivated political violence, the current conflict in Pakistan and Afghanistan, women’s and minorities’ rights and operational issues.
On October 8, ISISC hosted the avant-premiere of the Italian version of the long-buried documentary about the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946). “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] unfurled for an audience of Siracusa city officials, criminal justice experts, and high school teachers and students. Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, the President of ISISC, spoke about the innovations at Nuremberg and the importance of Nuremberg legacy. This event was preceded by a twin showing of the documentary, this time in Arabic, organized on October 6 for an elite group of Bahraini jurists and police officers, participating in the Technical Assistance Program for Bahrain Law Enforcement. One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, “Nuremberg” shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi was criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles”, the foundation for all subsequent trails for crimes against the peace, was crimes and crimes against humanity.