Speakers

The following experts will contribute to A Struggle for Peace:

• Leif Wenar; professor of ethics in London’s King’s College and founder of the site cleantrade.org. Professor Wenar shall provide a lecture on natural resources in Africa.

• Tariq Ramadan; philosopher and Professor of Islamic Studies in Oxford University. Professor Ramadan shall share with the audience his views on Islamic law versus Western law

• George Weiss; founder of radio station Radio la Benevolencija, which aims to help people processing traumas emanating from the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

• Reine Alapini-Gansou; Special Rapporteur of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights of Human Rights Defenders. Mr. Alapini-Gansou will provide a lecture on human rights activism in Africa.

• Suhas Chakma; Director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights. Mr. Chakma will deliver a lecture on the position of human rights in India.

• Samir Amin, a neo-Marxist economist and director of the Forum du Tiers Monde (Third World Forum), an organisation which aims to bring together intellectuals engaged in debates on various possible development alternatives. He will discuss the relationship between Capitalism and Human Rights.

• Sarah Islam of the Muslim human rights organisation Karamah, will deliver a speach about Women's rights in the Muslim world.

• Rosi Braidotti, professor in the Humanities at Utrecht University and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities, leads the debate 'The End of Human Rights?' and speaks in the final remarks of the conference.

• Mauricio Lazala is an international lawyer and Head of Latin America and the Middle East and Senior Researcher at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. He will speak about Businesses & human rights

• Steven Loyst, Head of Operation of the International Federation of the Red Cross. He will privide a masterclass about "Relief work and globalization"

• Bezwada Wilson, Dalit activist, will talk about his crusade to abolish the dehumanising practice of manual scavenging in India in the Human Rights-chat.

• Henk Oosterling, Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He will join in the debate 'The End of Human Rights?'