Dealing with International Terrorism and Regional Security: Constitutional status and legal framework to the tribal areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Tuesday 21 October 2008 09:30 to 18:00

Participants

Chairs:

Sandy Ghandhi, University of Reading

Elizabeth Wilmshurst Chatham House

Sir Michael Wood KCMG 20 Essex Street

Ben Chigara, Brunel University

Speakers:

Kamran Arif, Advocate, Pakistan

Dr Matthew Happold, Reader in Law, University of Hull

Nigel Inkster CMG, Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at IISS

Tanveer Jahan, DCHD, Democratic Commission on Human Development, Pakistan

Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad, Professor of International Law, Brunel University

Afrasiab Khattak, Human Rights Activist, Pakistan and Afghanistan, President Awami National Party

Colonel Christopher Langton, Senior Fellow for Conflict & Defence Diplomacy at IISS

Dr Siobhan Mullally, Director Senior Lecturer, Co-Director Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights University College Cork

John Packer, Director Human Rights Centre, Essex University

Javaid Rehman, Professor of International Law and Islamic Law. Brunel University

Katja Samuel, University of Sheffield

Dr Niaz Shah, Lecturer, University of Hull

Sir Hilary Synnott KCMG, Consulting Senior Fellow at the IISS

Rebecca Wallace, Professor of International Human Rights Law Robert Gordon University

Nigel White Professor of International Law, Sheffield University

The objective of this one-day conference is to highlight the relationship of Islamic extremism, international terrorism and regional security in the context of tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The tribal belt within Pakistan is based on constitutional uncertainty and inadequate legal mechanisms for implementation of human rights and criminal justice system. The lawlessness within the tribal areas surrounding Pakistan has also created a safe-haven for Islamic fundamentalists: this conference critically examines the role of the international community and the States of Pakistan and Afghanistan in developing an adequate legal framework and related institutions

The conference will address the following topics:

�? International law, regional security and issues of terrorism
�? Pakistan's tribal areas in the legal context
�? Tribal areas, the threat from terrorism and British Islamic fundamentalists
�? Women's rights, religious and cultural intolerance and the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JOINTLY ORGANISED BY BRUNEL LAW SCHOOL AND THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES and sponsorship of Eurasia-Net for the session on women's rights and religious intolerance