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DAY ONE - Tuesday, March 1, 2011 

7:00 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 am OPENING PRAYER
8:45 am –
10:00 am
WELCOME AND OVERVIEW

Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Brad Morse, Dean of Law, University of Waikato Te Piringa, New Zealand (Click here to view the presentation)

Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Certified Archivist and author of Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions, USA

10:00 am BREAK
10:15 am –
12:00 pm
Documenting and Memorializing Human Rights Abuses in Africa

Doudou Diène, Chair of the Board
International Coalition of Sites and Programs of Conscience; formerly UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Senegal 

Freddy Mutanguha, Executive Director
Kigali Memorial Centre, Rwanda

Catherine Kennedy, Executive Director
South Africa History Archives, South Africa

Tom Adami, Chief, Archives and Records Management
United Nations Mission in Sudan, Sudan

12:00 pm –
1:15 pm
LUNCH

Keynote Speaker:

Stephen Smith, Executive Director, Shoah Foundation

1:15 pm –
2:45 pm
Documenting and Memorializing the Holocaust 

Joanne Rudof, Archivist
Fortunoff Foundation, Yale University, USA

Susanne Urban, Head of Research
International Tracing Service, Germany

Kim Simon, Managing Director
USC Shoah Foundation Institute, USA

2:45 pm BREAK
3:00 pm –
5:00 pm

Archiving for Advocacy 

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Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive, George Washington University, USA

Grace Lile, Director of Operations and Archives
WITNESS, New York, USA

Marijana Toma, Coalition for RECOM; former Serbia Programme Coordinator; Impunity Watch, Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia

Ramon Albrech, Director, School of Archivists and Document Administration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, former President, Archivists without Borders, Spain

5:00 pm RAPPORTEUR - Karen Busby, founding Director, University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research.
5:15 pm CLOSING PRAYER
6:30 pm –
8:30 pm
NETWORKING RECEPTION