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In conformity with Article 90 of Protocol I, the depositary - Switzerland - convenes at intervals of five years a meeting of representatives of the High Contracting Parties for the purpose of electing the Members of the Commission. The Members are elected by secret ballot from a list of persons to which each of the High Contracting Parties may nominate one person. The Members of the Commission serve in their personal capacity and hold office until the election of new Members at ensuing meeting. In case of a casual vacancy, the Commission itself shall fill it, having due regard to the provisions of Article 90 of Protocol I and to the Rules of the Commission. According to the Rules of the Commission (Rule 1, 2), before taking up his / her duties, each Member shall make the following solemn declaration: I will exercise my functions as a Member of this Commission impartially, conscientously and in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol and these Rules, including those concerning secrecy. The High Contracting Parties ensure that, in the Commission as a whole, equitable geographic representation is assured. The current Members were elected at the meeting of the High Contracting Parties which was held on 7 December, 2006, in Berne. The President and the Vice-Presidents constitute together the Bureau. |
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Ghalib Djilali, first Vice-President
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Ph.D. studies in International Law University Complutense of Madrid; Master in International Studies University of Chile; Graduate Degree in Juridical & Social Sciences University of Chile and Attorney-at-law, Chilean Supreme Court. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: International Political Relations, Institut International de l'administration publique, Paris; Diplome XI Session d'Enseignement Institut International des Droits de L'Homme Strasbourg; International Law Seminar, United Nations International Law Comission Geneva; Courses on Public and Private International Law, International Law Academy The Hague. International Law Course, Interamerican Legal Committee (OAS) VISITING PROFESSOR: University Complutense of Madrid; School of Law, University of Puerto Rico. San Juan; Advanced Center of International Studies, University of Buenos Aires Republic of Argentina; XVIII Course of International Law, Interamerican Legal Committee of OAS., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Institute of Foreign Service "Manuel María de Peralta", Ministry of Foreign Affairs, San José Costa Rica and School of Law, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, University of Heidelberg. |
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Latest assignments held: His degrees and courses: Academic Instructor, Squadron Officer Course, Wing Officer Course, Superior Command Course, Defence Joint Staff Course, Joint AirStaff Course, National Defence Course, Attorney at Law and Social Sciences, Associate in Business Administration and Post Graduate Course in University Education. His academic activity: His publications: |
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Flavia Lattanti
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Stelios Perrakis
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President of the Advisory Commission on International Humanitarian Law of the Belgian Red Cross (French-speaking section) since 1996; member of the Belgian Inter-departmental Commission (inter-ministerial) on Humanitarian Law since 2002. President of the Centre for International Law at the B.L.U. since January 2003. Guest professor at various foreign universities Member of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission (1st protocol of 8 June 1977 additional to the 1949 Geneva Convention, Art. 90) since 1 January 2007
Two prize-winning works: Mercenaires et volontaires internationaux en droit des gens, (Henri Rolin Prize 1977) and Principes de droit des conflits armés (3rd ed., 2002), Peace prize of 1994 awarded by the Auschwitz Foundation and the Peace Centre of the city of Antwerp, and Paul Reuter Prize of 1994 awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Numerous course syllabuses and collections of texts and several scientific articles in Belgian and foreign revues of international law International law activities Advisory work for the UN, foreign states, legislative assemblies, Belgian and foreign lawyers and NGOs Member of arbitration commissions Counsel for various states at the
International Court of Justice and the International Criminal
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After retiring, he spent three months in Baghdad working for the Foreign Office on transitional justice issues and six months as a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law before taking up the Stockton Chair in International Law at the United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island in August 2004 for the year 2004/5. He is currently a Visiting Professor at King's College, London, a Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) on both their International Law and International Security Programmes. In 2006, he was elected as a member of the International Humanitarian Fact Finding Commission, established under Article 90 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Colonel Garraway is a member of the teaching faculty at the International Institute of International Law, San Remo, Italy and has lectured extensively on the law of armed conflict and international criminal justice to both civilian and military audiences. His publications include contributions to The International Criminal Court: Elements of Crimes and Rules of Procedure & Evidence (Ed. Roy Lee), 1999 Oceana Publications, as well as writings on superior orders (Superior Orders and the International Criminal Court: Justice Delivered or Justice Denied, 1999 IRRC No.836 at p.785), internal conflict (The Manual on the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict, Israel Yearbook on Human Rights (2006) Supplement), interoperability (Interoperability and the Atlantic Divide - A Bridge over Troubled Waters. Israel Yearbook on Human Rights (2004), at p.105) and transitional justice (The Statute of the Iraqi Special Tribunal - A Commentary, in Testing the Boundaries of International Humanitarian Law, Susan Breau & Agnieszka Jachec-Neale Eds., BIICL, 2006, at pp.155-189). |
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He was born in 1957 and graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law in 1982. He obtained LL.M. from Kyoto University in 1984 and conducted research activities as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Columbia University School of Law (1992-1994). He participated in various international and diplomatic conferences. He was an academic advisor for the Japanese member of the International Law Commission (ILC) (1996), an advisor for the Japanese delegation to Rome Conference for the Establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (1998) and for the Preparatory Commission for the ICC (1999-2002). Also, he served as an advisor for the Japanese delegation to the Meetings of the High Contracting Parties of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (2003-2005). In Japan, he serves as a member of the National Committee on International Humanitarian Law established by the Japanese Red Cross in 1999. Also, he works to disseminate the law of armed conflict among citizens and personnel of the Japan's Self-Defence Forces and Coast Guard through various seminars. Professor Mayama is a co-editor of a book entitled International Law of Armed Conflict (co-edited by Professor Shinya Murase, Toshindo Pub. (2004), 895p., in Japanese). He published many articles on: means and methods of ground warfare, target identification, issues surrounding explosive remnants of war (ERWs), applicability of the law of armed conflict to UN military operations, neutrality at sea, relationship between the law of the sea and the law of naval warfare, naval targeting, admissibility of third party request of enquiry to the IHFFC, and punishment of crime of aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. |
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1963-1970 medical studies at Basle University, including 8 months as a visiting student in Oxford, diploma in Tropical Medicine at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Basle. 1980- 1990 medical delegate of the ICRC (Intl. Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva) on an ad hoc basis in prisons of Latin America (political prisoners), the Middle East (Public Health questions in the occupied territories of Palestine, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, and Israeli POWs in Damascus), Europe (Spain: Political prisoners) and Africa (setting up a feeding programme for starving prisoners). In this function confronted with the evaluation of torture sequel at somatic and psychological levels. 1992 founder of Institute Psychotrauma Switzerland, as a response to the new Swiss law in favour of victims of violence, and to the massive arrival of refugees from the Balkans. 1993 - 2001 Working and evaluation missions as the Swiss member of the CPT (Commission for Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in persons deprived of their liberty), at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, re-elected in 1997 (till September 2001, end of eligibility). In this function obligation to assess physical and psychological marks of ill treatment or torture in prisons, police stations etc. Elaboration of a simple form (simpler and shorter than the Istanbul protocol) for forensic MDs in prisons and police stations. 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005: Evaluation for the EHRF (European Human Rights Foundation), then EIDHR (European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights, both Brussels) of centres for rehabilitation of tortures victims in Europe, Latin America, Asia, on paper and in situ. Summer 2002: Participation on a two days training programme of the "Institut für Völkerrecht" (Institute for international Law) in Graz/Austria: Human Rights in police stations (preventive and expulsion detention), for medical services: Participants police doctors, Human Rights NGOs and doctors from the Menschenrechstbeirat, a governmental monitoring body. Multiple books and articles in Handbooks, Journals and newspapers on Trauma, therapy, evaluation and prevention of sequel of violence and Human Rights violations. Main interests: Interface between Medicine and Human Rights, prevention of HR violation. Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew |
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Ian Refalo
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| Former Members |
| For the list of the former Members of the IHFFC, please klick here. |
Professor
emeritus, Dr.iur. - Born 1938 in Berlin. He studied law at the Universities
of Heidelberg and Hamburg and International Relations at the Graduate
Institute of International Studies, Geneva. From 1964 to 1979, he
was research assistant/fellow at the Max Planck Institute for comparative
Public Law and International law, Heidelberg, 1968/69 also visiting
scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. He passed
the State Examinations in Law in Heidelberg (1961) and Stuttgart
(1966), obtained the diploma of the Graduate Institue of International
Studies in Geneva (1966), the doctorate in law in Heidelberg (1967)
and the "Habilitation" also in Heidelberg (1974). He served
as Professor of Public Law, in particular international law at the
Universities of Heidelberg, Hannover and Frankfurt 1977-2003. In
addition, he was visiting professor/lecturer at the following universities:
Université de Montréal, University of Florida (Gainesville),
Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen, Université Paris II, Georgia State University
(Atlanta), Technische Universität Dresden, University of Tasmania
(Hobart). He directed and coordinated a number of major international
research projects, including projects on the OSCE in the maintenance
of peace and security and on the new Chemical Weapons Convention
as well as an EU project on climate change policy (2000 to 2004).
He also served as the coordinator of the Tacis Project "Creation
of an Institute of European Law at the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations" (1996-2000). He was Vice-President
and President, European Environmental Law Association 1993-1998;
President, German Society for International Law 2001-2005. He is
Chair, Commission for International Humanitarian Law, German Red
Cross and President of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding
Commission. He also served as counsel in various cases before the
International Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional
Court. He is the author of numerous publications on international
law and the use of force, international humanitarian law, international,
European and comparative environmental law as well as comparative
constitutional law.
Director
of Political and Legal affairs, National Academy for Political
and Strategic Studies, Ministry of National Defense; ex Director
Institute of International Studies University of Chile; full Professor
School of Law University of Chile.
Elzbieta
Mikos-Skuza was born in 1959. In 1982 she graduated with distinction
from the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw (Poland). She studied
also at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (The Netherlands)
where she attended two post-graduate programs: in International
Law and Development (diploma with distinction in 1985) and in
Development, Law and Social Justice (diploma in 1985). In 1991
she obtained a doctor's degree in law from the University of Warsaw.
Since 1982 she has been working - with few breaks due to her studies
and maternity leaves - at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw
as a lecturer in public international law. She lectures occasionally
at other universities and colleges, e.g. Polish Academy of National
Defense, College of Europe, University of Rovaniemi in Finland.
Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza is an author of publications (text-books
and articles) on public international law in general and international
humanitarian law of armed conflicts in particular. She serves
as an expert to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since
1981 she has been volunteering with the Polish Red Cross. At present
she is a vice-president of the PRC, member of its national board,
president of the PRC Commission for International Humanitarian
Law being responsible, among others, for international and national
IHL courses organized by the PRC. She is an expert of the International
Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in numerous think tanks, panels
and working groups. She is also a member of the San Remo International
Institute of Humanitarian Law and of the International Law Association
Committee on the Use of Force. In 2001 she was elected a member
of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. Since
2002 she has been a vice-president of the Commission. Elzbieta
Mikos-Skuza is married and has two children.
Captain
Valery Sergeevitch Knyazev was born in 1939 in Moscow (USSR). He
left the secondary school there in 1956 and attended within the
1956 - 1961 period of time the Higher Naval Engineers School in
Sevastopol, Crimea. He studied everything necessary for operation
of submarines power systems and after graduating from the School
spent seven years serving in the USSR Navy as a submarine engineer.
In 1968 he began to study world economies and international law
in the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade, Moscow, which he graduated
in 1971 and the next eighteen years dedicated mainly to maritime
law. He was a senior fellow and a deputy head of the Naval Research
Division on International Maritime Law (within the Maritime Transport
Scientific Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Merchant Marine).
Being involved in the research work he studied international humanitarian
law and application of this law to sea wars. He participated as
a councillor & a member of the Soviet Delegation in the III
UN Conference on the law of the Sea. In 1989 he entered the Russia
diplomatic service working initially as a senior councillor of the
MFA Legal Department. Then he was a head of a treaties & international
public law divisions of that Department and in 1995 - 2001 he served
in London as a Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the
International Maritime Organization. Since April 2006 he is the
Head of Legal Department, the Eurasian Economic Community Integration
Committee Secretariat. Captain Valery Knyazev is married and has
two children (four grand children).
Hugo
Corujo Sanseviero has the title of a Colonel (Navegant) Uruguayan
Air Force Commissioned Officer. 
Ordinary
professor at the Free University of Brussels (B.L.U.) in Public
International Law, Law on International Organisations, International
Criminal Law, Law of Armed Conflicts
Colonel
Charles H. B. Garraway CBE retired in 2003 after thirty years
in United Kingdom Army Legal Services, initially as a criminal
prosecutor but latterly as an adviser in the law of armed conflict
and operational law. In that capacity, he represented the Ministry
of Defence at numerous international conferences and was part
of the UK delegations to the First Review Conference for the 1981
Conventional Weapons Convention, the negotiations on the establishment
of an International Criminal Court, and the Diplomatic Conference
that led to the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention
on Cultural Property. He was also the senior Army lawyer deployed
to the Gulf during the 1990/91 Gulf Conflict.
Professor
Mayama is a professor of international law and his major field of
research is the law of armed conflict (international humanitarian
law). He is currently Professor of international law in the National
Defence Academy of Japan and the Chair of the Graduate School of
Security Studies of the Academy.
1944
born in Basle, grown up in Switzerland, the UK and Germany. 
Miodrag
Starcevic, lawyer, expert in international humanitarian law and
Red Cross Law. Graduated Military Academy in Zagreb-Croatia, studied
Law Faculty in Zagreb and Split-Croatia; post-graduate studies
in Belgrade-Serbia, master degree in Belgrade-Serbia, Ph.D. degree
in Belgrade-Serbia. 26 years of military career, the highest position-Head
of Legal Department of Ministry of Defense; left Army Service
by own application in the rank of full colonel, 1993.Full professor
at the Private University in Novi Sad, lecturer on IHL in High
Military Schools, lecturer of IHL at Faculty of Political Science
in Belgrade-Specialist Postgraduate Course. He published five
books, more than 40 articles and contributions to professional
journals. Member of International Association for international
law-Belgrade, member of International Law Association-London,
member of the International Institute for Humanitarian Law-San
Remo. He participated in four International Red Cross/Red Crescent
Conferences, from 1991 to 2003. He participated in London and
Geneva Conferences on former Yugoslavia, as an expert, 1992 and
1993. He is Vice-chairman of the National IHL Commission of Serbia,
Chairman of the Serbia Red Cross IHL Commission. 
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