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14:30Coffee
15:00Welcome
Thomas Ebbesen
Director of USIAS
15:05
Opening words
Alain Beretz
President of the University of Strasbourg
15:10
Democratic Security:
a better future for Europe
Thorbjorn Jagland
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
15:55
Righting Security or Securitizing Rights
Liora Lazarus
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Oxford
16:40 Discussion and conclusion
Sylvain Schirmann
Director of the Institute of Political Studies,
University of Strasbourg
17:00Reception
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Speakers:
Thorbjørn Jagland
Secretary General, Council of Europe
Liora Lazarus
University of Oxford, University of Oxford
3 February 2015
15:00 - 17:00
ISIS - 8 allée Gaspard Monge, Strasbourg
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Democratic Security:
a better future for Europe
Righting Security
or Securitizing Rights
In the face of growing populism and extremism, Europe’s governments and policy makers are now searching for answers.
Mr Jagland will explain why tackling these threats depends,
ultimately, on a deepening of Europe’s commitment to the
rule of law and human rights, and why there is now only one
model of security we can depend on: democratic security.
There is an entrenched popular opposition between security
on the one hand, and human rights, the rule of law and liberal democracy on the other. This lecture will challenge this
opposition, and will reflect on political attempts to reconcile
these values, while also warning about the danger of securitising rights, the rule of law and democracy in the process.
Thorbjørn Jagland
Liora Lazarus
Thorbjørn Jagland is Secretary General
of the Council of Europe since 1 October
2009.
Liora Lazarus is an Associate Professor in
Human Rights Law at the University of
Oxford.
He was Prime Minister of Norway (19961997), Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Norway (2000-2001), and President of
the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting
(2005 to 2009). In addition he has been Chairman of the Standing
Committee on Foreign Affairs and the enlarged Foreign Affairs
Committee in the Storting for four years (2001-2005) and served
as Chairman of the European Economic Area (EEA) Consultative
Committee during this period (2000-2005). Mr Jagland was
Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party for ten years (1992-2002),
and Party Secretary of the Labour Party for five years (1987-1992).
He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Oslo (1975).
Born and raised in South Africa, she
studied at the University of Cape Town,
the London School of Economics and
Political Science and the University of
Oxford. She was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign
and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, before her
current position at the University of Oxford. She is the author of
a number of academic books and articles, including Contrasting
Prisoners Rights (Oxford University Press 2004), Security and
Human Rights (Hart 2007) and Reasoning Rights (2014). She has
also completed a number of public reports, for the UK Ministry
of Justice on balancing security and human rights, the UK Stern
Review into the treatment of Rape Complaints, and the European
Union Parliament on the genesis of existing human rights frameworks.
Over the last 20 years, Mr Jagland has published widely on a
range of issues, in particular on European and international affairs. He has published four books in Norway: My European Dream
(1990), Letters (1995), Our Vulnerable World (2001) and Ten Theses
on the EU and Norway (2003).
He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Oslo
centre for Peace and Human Rights. Since 2009 he has been the
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the
Nobel Peace Prize every year.
Professor Lazarus is an Associate Director of the Oxford Human
Rights Hub, and is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro
Bono Publico (which she co-founded). She is the book review
editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, and sits on the
editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is also
on the Advisory Board of Oxford’s Centre for Ethics and Law in
Armed Conflict.
On 24 June 2014, Mr Jagland was re-elected as Secretary General
of the Council of Europe to serve an additional five years. His
second five-year term in office commences on 1 October 2014.
Jagland became the first Secretary General in the history of the
Council of Europe to be re-elected.
Professor Lazarus is currently working on two monographs
for Hart Publishing entitled Securing Legality and Juridifying
Security, the work on these are funded by the British Academy
and the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future
Generations.