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CoESPU at the “40TH ROUND TABLE ON CURRENT ISSUES OF

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW”

Sanremo, 7-9 September, 2017

As tradition, by virtue of the close relations between the
two institutes, also this year the CoESPU, with the
presence of the Director of the Center, Gen.B. Pietro
Giovanni Barbano and my participation, as holder of the
CoESPU International and Humanitarian Law Chair, took
part at the important annual round table organized by the
Sanremo International Institute of Humanitarian Law
(IIHL).
The initiative, entitled “the Additional Protocols 40 years
later: new conflicts, new actors, new perspectives”,
organized in collaboration with the International
Committee of the Red Cross, awarded with the plate of the
President of the Italian Republic and with the advocacy of
the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation, offered the opportunity to focus, forty years
after their adoption, on the relevance of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, signed at
The Hague in 1977.
Institutional greetings, including the one of Professor Fausto Pocar, Chairman of IIHL, were followed
by eight different sessions analyzing new conflicts and future prospects of humanitarian law.
The high value of the roundtable has been, for sure, determined by the international level of the
initiative and the alternation of
rapporteurs and moderators
with prestigious professional
backgrounds and equally
peculiar academic, diplomatic
and military experiences. The
most important international
universities such as Tel Aviv,
Brussels, Genoa, Nottingham,
Frankfurt, Turin, Milan and
Reggio Calabria, with the
participation of their academics,
contributed to the conference.
The speakers and the audience,

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