Shannon Peace Forum Sat 21 March

international | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday March 05, 2009 20:12 by Edward Horgan - Peace and Neutrality Alliance edward_horgan at hotmail dot com 086-3559911

Peace Forum to commemorate 6 Aniversary of start of Iraq War

An important peace forum is being held at the Park Inn Hotel at Shannon airpport on Sat 21 March.
Among other objectives, this peace forum is intended to initiate the process of establishing accountability for Ireland's shameful complicity in the deaths of over one million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Shannon Peace Forum
Facilitated by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance

Location: Park Inn Hotel, Shannon Airport
Date: Saturday 21 March 2009, 1pm – 5.30 pm

Forum themes and objectives: Peace, Justice and Accountability

12.00: Press Conference – Neutrality and the Lisbon Treaty rerun

13.00 to 13.30 Forum Registration: (Admission waged €15, unwaged free – Lunch available at Park Inn at about €10)

13.30: Opening address: The human rights of one million Iraqi dead –
Dr Sawsan Assaf, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.
13.50: Presentation by Lutz Metzger, German Peace Activists from Leipzig.

14.00: Irish Neutrality-the Lisbon Treaty - Role of Shannon Airport in Iraq and Afghan wars. Panel: Roger Cole, PANA, Michael Youlton, IAWM, Prof John Maguire, AWI.

15.00: Extraordinary Rendition – Irish Complicity in abuses of international law –
From Bush to Obama – from Guantanamo Back to Bagram?
Noeleen Hartigan, Amnesty International, John Lannon, Shannonwatch.org, Professor Gernot Biehler, TCD.

16.00: Plenary Session – Accountability and the Way Forward –
Panel to include peace activist from Derry, contribution from Political Parties including: Patricia McKenna Green Party, Jan O’Sullivan TD labour Party and Theresa Ferris, Sinn Fein
Objective – a frank and open exchange of views.
Peace activists attending the Forum are invited to make written submissions, both before and after the Forum on various aspects of the two main topics, Neutrality and Torture Rendition, and on the additional topic of the way forward for the Irish peace movement.

17:30 Close of Forum - Accountability is the Way Forward

For more information contact Ed Horgan Tel: 086-3539911
[email protected].