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CMU students to present at International Criminal Court conference
Students will be available for interviews via phone and Skype
March 02, 2012 —
Editor’s Note: All three students will be available for phone and Skype interviews next week. To coordinate interviews, please contact Danny Goodwin Jr. at 989-774-1207, goodw1db@cmich.edu.
Three Central Michigan University students will be presenting papers on the criminal acts of engaging children as combat soldiers to the International Criminal Court Student Network in The Hague next week.
The ICCSN will be holding a historical international conference on March 8 and 9 that will focus on the Thomas Lubanga Dyilo trial, the first trial to be heard by the International Criminal Court. Dyilo was arrested in 2006 for enlisting children under the age of fifteen to participate in hostile activities, which the ICC defines as a war crime. The conference will serve as a forum for young professionals worldwide to discuss the trial and its implications on the future of the court and the global community.
CMU professor of philosophy Hope May is one of three people on the executive board of the ICCSN. May says the three CMU students will represent the U.S. on an international scale.
“It sends a message to the world that the U.S. is deeply interested in the activities of the international criminal court,” May said.
Grand Rapids senior Caitlin Cheevers, Mount Pleasant junior Erica Maylee and Clinton senior Randi Shaffer will be three of 22 presenters speaking at the conference. Other students and young professionals from the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Ireland and other countries also will present.
CMU’s department of philosophy and religion as well as CMU’s College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences serve as the major financial sponsors of the conference. May said that CMU’s commitment to this conference helps to educate young adults internationally on the issue of human rights.
“It is extremely significant that a public university in the heartland of the U.S. is the major sponsor of a student conference focused on the first case of the ICC,” May said. “It shows the world that the U.S. is educating not only our youth but other youth around the world about the activities of the court and the meaning of human rights.”