Counter-Terrorism: Legal Challenges and Regional Approaches

International and Comparative Law Research Center together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova held on their platforms the Discussion sessions "Counter-Terrorism: Legal Challenges and Regional Approaches". Participants shared their experience, discussed issues of the legal regime of counter terrorism operations, regional approaches to combating terrorism and legal status of terrorists.

Opening ceremony and first session on Legal Regime of Counter-Terrorism Operations took place in the library of the Center. Guests were welcomed by opening speeches of Gauthier Lefèvre, Deputy Head of the Regional Delegation ICRC and Ekaterina Sorokovaya, General Director of the Center.

Participants of the first session:
  • Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov (Russia)  moderator;
  • Kenneth Watkin (Canada);
  • Andrea Bianchi (Switzerland);
  • Uzeyir Mammadov (Russia);
  • Vladimir Bulatov (Russia).
The second session on Regional Approaches to Combating Terrorism was also held at the Center.

The participants:
  • Irina Kobrinskaya (Russia)  moderator;
  • Martin A. Ewi (Republic of South Africa);
  • Yan St-Pierre (France);
  • Emiliano Buis (Argentina);
  • Leonid Isaev (Russia);
  • Petr Koronevsky (Belarus).
The third session on Terrorists as actors in contemporary Armed Conflicts: Status, Protection and Responsibility, was held in Humanitarium of ICRC.

In this session took part:
  • Vera Rusinova (Russia)  moderator;
  • Natalia Sokolova (Russia);
  • Sergey Golubok (Russia);
  • Yuval Ginbar (UK);
  • Marс Maurer (Switzerland).