‫תכנית קיץ משותפת עם אוניברסיטת מקגיל‬
‫זכויות אדם בעתות סכסוך‬
‫מונטריאול‪ 42-6 ,‬באוגוסט ‪ 5( 4024‬נ"ז)‬
‫מרכז מינרבה לזכויות האדם שמח להודיע על פתיחת ההרשמה למחזור השני של תכנית הקיץ המתקיימת‬
‫בשיתוף עם המרכז לזכויות אדם ופלורליזם משפטי של אוניברסיטת מקגיל ממונטריאול‪ ,‬קנדה‪ .‬התכנית‬
‫המרוכזת מיועדת לסטודנטים למשפטים מהאוניברסיטה העברית ומאוניברסיטת מקגיל (כ‪ 01-‬מכל‬
‫אוניברסיטה)‪ ,‬אשר ילמדו בצוותא – ותועבר‪ ,‬בשפה האנגלית‪ ,‬על ידי מרצים משתי האוניברסיטאות‪.‬‬
‫התכנית תתקיים השנה במונטריאול‪ ,‬ותעסוק בסוגיות של זכויות אדם בעתות סכסוך‪.‬‬
‫תכנית הקיץ תעסוק במגוון סוגיות בוערות ומורכבות המעסיקות היום את שתי המדינות‪ ,‬ואת הקהילה‬
‫הבינלאומית בכללותה – מתוך אמונה שלימוד משווה של הסוגיות עפ"י המצב המשפטי הקיים בכל מדינה‬
‫ובמשפט הבינלאומי‪ ,‬במשותף עם מרצים וסטודנטים משתי האוניברסיטאות‪ ,‬יעשיר את כל המשתתפים‪.‬‬
‫התכנית האינטנסיבית‪ ,‬בת שלושה שבועות‪ ,‬תכלול חמישה קורסים אקדמיים‪ ,‬בהיקף כולל של ‪ 5‬נ"ז‪ ,‬לצד‬
‫סיורים ומפגשים רלוונטיים לנושאי הלימוד‪ .‬הקורסים הצפויים‪ :‬בתי דין‪ ,‬זכויות אדם ומצבי סכסוך; טרור‪,‬‬
‫אמצעים נגד טרור וזכויות אדם; ילדים‪-‬חיילים והמשפט הבינלאומי; זכויות אדם ועשיית שלום‪/‬שמירת‬
‫שלום; הפרות של זכויות אדם בסכסוך מזוין‪ .‬המנהלים האקדמיים של התכנית הינם ד"ר תומר ברודי‬
‫מהאוניברסיטה העברית ופרופ' רנה פרובו ממקגיל‪.‬‬
‫פרטים נוספים על התכנית מצורפים בשפה האנגלית בהמשך‪.‬‬
‫הגשת מועמדות לתכנית‪:‬‬
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‫מכתב בקשה המפרט את העניין בתכנית‪ ,‬וכן רקע וניסיון קודם בתחום זכויות אדם (ככל שיש)‬
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The 2012 McGill University / Hebrew University
International Summer Program in Human Rights
"Human Rights and Conflict"
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Minerva Center for Human Rights and McGill University's
Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and are pleased to offer the 2nd annual joint
international summer program in human rights for law students.
The intensive three-week program will be offered annually in the month of August. Five one-credit
courses will be taught, for a total of 75 hours of class. The teaching faculty will come primarily from
the Faculties of Law at McGill and the Hebrew University. Students from the two institutions will
receive credit from their home universities for the successfully completed courses.
This year the Summer Program will be held in Montreal, at McGill University, and chaired by Tomer
Broude (Hebrew University) and René Provost (McGill). The topic selected for the 2012 Program is
"Human Rights and Conflict".
2012 Summer Program Topic: "Human Rights and Conflict"
War is often seen as the very antithesis of human rights. While the old adage that ‘inter arma enim
silent leges’ (“in times of war the laws are silent”) has long been discarded, there is no denying that,
more often than not, war disrupts the functioning of social and legal structures which normally
underpin the rule of law and the protection of human rights. Over the last century and half, the
international community has progressively developed legal standards meant to provide protection of
fundamental human interests even in situations of armed conflicts. One branch of the legal regulation
of war, international humanitarian law, is designed specifically to reconcile elementary considerations
of humanity with the requirements of military necessity. The second branch, international human
rights law, contains standards which are meant to apply to everyone, everywhere and at all times, but
with the admitted proviso that situations of armed conflict represent an unusual set of circumstances
which calls for adjustments to the content and application of human rights norms. How adequately
are individuals and groups protected by human rights and humanitarian law during armed conflicts?
Do these two regimes operate on the basis of similar assumptions, reflecting identical values, through
similar structures? Are there points or situations in which human rights and humanitarian law appear
to be in tension?
Canada and Israel are two countries whose paths have not steered clear of armed conflict, although
their respective terms of engagement with the realities of warfare have been very different. Israel was
born from war, in war, and has yet to emerge completely from entanglement with one type of armed
conflict or another. Israel has known war with its neighbouring states, with faraway states, and with
armed groups. Canada’s modern involvement with warfare has been in the name of multilateralism.
Peacekeeping by the United Nations was initially advocated by then Canadian Foreign Minister
Lester Pearson, for which he was later awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. For four decades, Canada
participated in a great number of peacekeeping missions under the aegis of the United Nations. This
involvement in peacekeeping lately has waned in favour of more aggressive military interventions in
NATO or allied coalitions in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These different engagements with armed
conflicts do not necessarily result in divergent perspectives on the protection of human rights in times
of war, but they do combine to provide a rich canvas on which to study the full range of theoretical
and practical challenges related to this theme.
Courses
Students in the Summer Program are required to take all five courses. The courses offered during the
2012 Summer Program are expected to address the following topics:

Courts, Human Rights and Conflict (René Provost & Tomer Broude)
In armed conflict, national judiciaries find themselves in a difficult position, charged with
restraining the actions of their own governments and armed forces during their engagement with
enemy forces. This course aims to critically examine the role that national courts (particularly
Israeli and Canadian) play in regulating the protection of human rights in armed conflict, while
studying important jurisprudence in the field. Israeli courts have ruled on a variety of issues such
as the use of specific munitions (the Flechette case) and tactics (e.g., 'targeted killings', 'human
shields') as well as security measures in belligerent occupation. Canadian courts have been less
involved with armed conflicts than Israeli ones, obviously, although there are a few interesting
cases like Amnesty International v. Canada (on the application of the Charter of rights to
detainees in Afghanistan) and the Bil’in Village case (civil liability of a Quebec company building
condos in the occupied territories in violation of IHL). These and other cases will be examined
comparatively and in context, focusing on the institutional positions taken by the courts.

Terror, Counter-Terror, and Human Rights (David Kretzmer)
Terror and counter-terror measures concerned the international community and many states
before the 9/11 attack. However, the need for counter-terror measures and the legitimacy of such
measures received renewed and urgent discussion after that attack. In this course we shall deal
with the challenges that face international law in countering terror. The fundamental question
that shall concern us is to what extent counter-terror measures are compatible with international
human rights norms.

Children and Armed Conflict: Roles, Rights and Responsibilities (Shauna Van Praagh)
Children’s experiences in times and zones of armed conflict are understood to be unique and
deserving of particular attention. Victims who require special protection, children can also be
actors and even responsible agents. Human rights instruments provide a framework for
understanding and responding to children’s needs and interests, but a meaningful critical and
empathetic analysis of children in armed conflict reaches beyond the articulation, interpretation,
and application of rights.
Participants in this course will integrate theoretical and
interdisciplinary insights vis-à-vis young people with examination of concrete issues and
challenges related to identity, family, community and combat.

Human Rights and Peacemaking/Peacekeeping (Frédéric Mégret)
This course will examine human rights issues raised by peacekeeping. Peacekeeping is
increasingly framed as a way of safeguarding basic human rights, and many operations include a
sizeable human rights component. Yet peace operations have also come under criticism for abuses
and lack of accountability. In a context where peace-keeping operations increasingly transform
themselves into peace-making and peace-building, the course will examine some of the
mechanisms that have been put in place to better take into account human rights concerns.

Addressing Human Rights Violations in Armed Conflict (Yaël Ronen)
This course examines different approaches taken by individual states and by the international
community collectively to address violations of human rights in armed conflict, both during
conflict and in its aftermath. It draws on practice from a various states and regions, including
Georgia and Rwanda, South Africa and East Timor, Libya, Argentina and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The first part of the course will introduce a variety of accountability mechanisms, such as
interstate adjudication, individual criminal responsibility, reparations, truth and reconciliation
processes and military intervention. The second part of the course will consider specific issues
that have generated legal interest, such as sexual crimes, engagement with social and economic
rights, responsibility of non-state actors and amnesties.
Tours, Meetings and Events
In order to encourage participants to take their reflections outside the classroom, the Program will
also include tours, meetings with State officials and nongovernmental organizations, guest lectures
and group social events. This will include meeting with partner organizations in Montreal, such as
Rights and Democracy, and visiting institutions such as the Quebec Human Rights Commission and
the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa.
Faculty
The Summer Program will be taught by three professors from McGill and three from Hebrew
University:

Prof. René Provost, Former Director, McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
René Provost is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University, where he
teaches several courses in the area of human rights and social diversity, including International
Law of Human rights, International Humanitarian Law, and Public International Law. He has
degrees from the Université de Montréal (LL.B.), U.C. Berkeley (LL.M.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). He
is the author of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press,
2002), editor of State Responsibility in International Law (Ashgate/Darthmout, 2002), and co-editor
of Public International Law Chiefly as Applied and Interpreted in Canada (Emond Montgomery, 2006)
and Confronting Genocide (Springer Verlag 2011). He has acted as a consultant for DFAIT and
CIDA on numerous occasions.

Prof. Shauna Van Praagh, McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Shauna Van Praagh is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University, holding
degrees from the University of Toronto (B.Sc, LL.B.) and Columbia Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.).
She incorporates human rights and social diversity issues into her teaching of Extracontractual
Obligations/Torts and Graduate Legal Methodology. She has also taught Social Diversity and
Law, a course which explores interdisciplinary perspectives on law, identity and social orders,
Children and Law, and Foundations of Canadian Law. Professor Van Praagh's research interests
focus on the rights, duties and needs of young people, on religious and cultural identities within
family, community and school, on the challenges to governance structures posed by social
diversity, and on the relationship between law and literature particularly in pedagogy. Professor
Van Praagh has acted as a research consultant to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Reasonable
Accommodation and to the Law Commission of Canada on its "Beyond Conjugality" project; has
carried out research on the Hasidic Jewish communities of Montreal; and has led judicial
education workshops exploring social diversity in the theory and practice of family law.

Prof. Frédéric Mégret, McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Frédéric Mégret PhD (Graduate Institute of International Studies (University of Geneva) /
Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), LLB (King’s College, London) is an Associate Professor of
Law and the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Before
joining the University of McGill, Professor he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of
the University of Toronto, a Boulton fellow at McGill University and a research associate at the
European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of “Le Tribunal pénal international
pour le Rwanda” (Pedone, 2002), and co-editor of the second edition of “The United Nations and
Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal” (Oxford University Press, 2082) with Prof. Philip Alston.

Prof. David Kretzmer, Founding Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights
David Kretzmer LLB, LLM (Jerusalem), Dr Jur (York, Canada), Dr Jur hc (Potsdam), is Professor
Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Law at
Sapir College. He was the founding academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights of
the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University. From 1995=2002 he served as a member of the
UN Human Rights Committee. His books include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court
of Israel and the Occupied Territories (2002), The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights
Discourse (edited with E Klein, 2002), and The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel (2nd edition,
2002). His articles on IHL, human rights, and constitutional law have appeared in leading law
journals, including the AJIL, EJIL, and the European Constitutional Law Review.

Dr. Tomer Broude, Academic Director, Minerva Center for Human Rights
Tomer Broude is Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Faculty of Law and
Department of International Relations. His fields of research are in international economic law
and its interaction with human rights, development, migration and cultural diversity. His
publications include International Governance in the WTO: Judicial Boundaries and Political
Capitulation (2004); The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law: Considering Sovereignty,
Supremacy and Subsidiary (2008, ed. with Yuval Shany); The Politics of International Economic Law
(ed. with Marc L. Busch and Amy Porges) and articles and essays that have appeared in the
Vanderbilt Law Review, World Trade Review, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of
World Intellectual Property, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He is one of the
founders of the Society of International Economic Law and a member of its Executive Council,
and a Member of the International Law Association Committee on the International Law of
Sustainable Development.

Dr. Yaël Ronen, Academic Editor, Israel Law Review, Minerva Center for Human Rights
Yaël Ronen holds and LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD from
the University of Cambridge. She is a former Vidal Angel Postdoctoral Fellow for Research
against Hate and Bigotry at the Minerva Center for Human Rights. Currently a senior lecturer at
Sha'arei Mishpat College in Israel, her areas of interest include human rights, humanitarian law
and international criminal law. Among her publications are Transition from Illegal Regimes in
International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Iranian Nuclear Issue (Hart, 2010),
“Superior Responsibility of Civilians for International Crimes Committed in Civilian Settings” 43
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 313 (2010), and “Avoid or Compensate? Liability for
Incidental Injury to Civilians Inflicted during Armed Conflict” 42 Vanderbilt Journal of
Transnational Law 181 (2009).
Montreal
The city of Montreal, Québec, stands at a unique crossroads between Europe and North America, and
between the English and French languages. From the beautiful cobblestoned streets of the old city,
located around the Old Port, to the museums, parks, and restaurants of all gastronomic persuasions,
Montreal is a wonderful city of bilingual culture and multicultural influences. While English is spoken
everywhere, there are plenty of opportunities to practice your French – Montreal is the second largest
French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. The city blends its heritage, history and geographical
location into a unique living experience. Moreover, August is festival season in Montreal, and
students will be able to enjoy a wide variety of concerts, film showings, and firework displays
throughout their stay.
Admissions
The McGill University / Hebrew University of Jerusalem Summer Program in Human Rights is
primarily aimed at undergraduate (LL.B. / B.C.L.) and graduate students (LL.M. and D.C.L. / Ph.D.)
enrolled in the law faculties of the two partner universities. Students will register for the summer
program with their respective law faculties, and obtain home university credits which will count
towards their degree requirements. They will pay tuition fees to their respective universities for these
credits. The Summer Program aims to admit 10 students from each faculty of law in each year.
2012 Program Costs
Program courses, meetings and tours – and, for Hebrew University students, campus
accommodations and flight costs - are all included in the cost of tuition. Summer Program participants
are required to arrange their own health and travel insurance, and will be responsible for food,
domestic travel and other expenses. We anticipate that Hebrew University students will be housed in
the McGill New Residence Hall, a short walk away from the Faculty of Law.
About the Centers for Human Rights
McGill's Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, created in 2005, is a focal point for innovative
legal and interdisciplinary research, dialogue, and outreach on human rights and legal pluralism. Its
primary objectives include: to advance innovative research on human rights and the role of law in a
legally plural world; to enrich the nexus of scholarship and teaching by engaging undergraduate and
graduate students in human rights research projects, human rights internships and advanced
scholarship; to communicate research results and provide a forum for the interdisciplinary exchange
of ideas through scholarly publications, public conferences, seminars, and workshops.
Hebrew University's Minerva Center for Human Rights, founded in 1993, is the preeminent academic
center in Israel devoted to human rights education and research. It initiates interdisciplinary academic
scholarship on a broad range of local and global human rights issues, with particular emphasis on
promoting interaction between the local academic community – students and faculty - and their
international counterparts, and on generating awareness of, and discourse with, international
scholarship, historical experience and cultural perspectives. The Center seeks to promote dialogue and
cooperation between government, civil society and academia in understanding and addressing local
human rights challenges. Its activities include courses with local and international guest faculty,
international conferences and symposia, government/NGO workshops, postdoctoral and doctoral
fellowships, research groups, internship programs in Israel and abroad, community educational
programs, and publication of the Israel Law Review, a leading international journal of human rights,
international and public law.