DRAFT PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN VIOLENCE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON URBAN VIOLENCE
DRAFT PROGRAMME
23-24 October 2014
Polícia Judiciária Main Building
Lisbon, Portuga
Thursday, 23 October 2014
09.00-09.30
Registration of participants
OPENING SESSION
09.30-09.50
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Mr António COSTA MOURA, State Secretary of Justice, Portugal
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Mr Carlo CHIAROMONTE, Head of the Criminal Law Division, Secretary to the
European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
09.50-10.00 Group picture
SESSION I
10.00-12.15
Dialogue and co-operation to prevent urban violence
Chair: Mr Jesper HJORTENBERG
Chair of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
Presentations
 General trends and preventive strategies on urban violence
Mr Sebastian ROCHE, Research professor, The National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS), France
 Urban violence - Local response
Mr Artur OLIVEIRA, Judge in Tribunal Relação do Porto, Portugal
 Prevention of urban violence by the judicial stakeholders
Mr Bertrand CHAMOULAUD, Police Commissioner, National Police, France
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
 Policing new social movements in Spain
Mr Enrique GUARINOS MARTÍ, Police Inspector, Anti-riots Unit, Spanish
National Police
 The role of New Information and Communication Technologies
(NICT) in mass mobilization and urban violence: A tool for
instigators?
Mr Jan HANRATH, Research Fellow, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Discussion
The discussion that will follow Session I will be an opportunity for an exchange of
views between the different stakeholders involved in the prevention of urban
violence. It aims to define good practices which could help to avoid outbreaks of
violence. It also aims to define the different stakeholders’ roles in order to ensure
better co-operation between them.
SESSION II
12.15-15.45
Case session
Chair: Mr Oscar ALARCON JIMENEZ
Co-secretary of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
Presentations
 English experience
Mr Tim NEWBURN, Professor, Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology
and Criminal Justice, London School of Economics, UK
 The Swedish experience
Mr Jerzy SARNECKI, Professor, Stockholm University’s Department of
Criminology, Sweden
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
 Northern Ireland’s experience
Mr Neil JARMAN, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict
Transformation and Social Justice, Queens University Belfast, UK
 The Netherland’s experience
Mr Otto ADANG, Chair, Public order management, Police Academy of the
Netherlands
 The Greek experience
Mr Anastasios DELLIS, Police Major – Criminologist, Greece
 Local authorities’ perspective when dealing with urban violence
Mr Sebastian SPERBER, European Forum for Urban Security (EFUS)
Discussion
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This session, and the following discussion, will offer concrete examples of outbreaks
of urban violence, and the methods adopted by the different stakeholders to fight
them.
15.45-16.00 Coffee break
SESSION III
16.00-17.15
Gathering evidence for the accountability of instigators of violence /
leaders
Chair: Mr Carlo CHIAROMONTE
Head of the Criminal Law Division
Secretary to the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
Presentations
 The legal framework of law enforcement action on social
networks/media
Mr Pedro VERDELHO, Prosecutor, Portugal
 How the use of evidence is being transformed by NITCs
Mr Yves CHARPENEL, First Prosecutor General to the Cour de cassation de
France
 Questions and challenges when collecting digital traces to identify
and locate persons
Ms Solange GHERNAOUTI, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and research
group, Switzerland
Discussion
The discussion following Session III will cover how to face up to the challenge
represented by NITC’s in the case of urban violence. It will allow an exchange of
views about the production of evidence and how it can be effective while staying
reliable.
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Friday, 24 October 2014
SESSION IV
09.30-11.15
Imposition of restrictions while preserving citizens’ rights
Chair: António FOLGADO
Head of Division for Criminal Justice
International Affairs Department, Ministry of Justice, Portugal
Presentations
 The balance between citizen’s rights and individual rights?
Mr Nils MUIZNIEKS, Commissioner for human Rights, Council of Europe
(Video message)
 Reasonable limits on freedom of assembly and expression
Mr Mario BELO MORGADO, Judge, Portugal
Mr João Manuel DA SILVA MIGUEL, Deputy Prosecutor General at the
Supreme Court of Portugal
 Possibilities and limitations of police work in the urban areas of
concern
Mr Jerzy SARNECKI, Professor, Stockholm University’s Department of
Criminology, Sweden
 Responding to the risk of violence at protests
Mr Neil JARMAN, Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict
Transformation and Social Justice, Queens University Belfast, UK
 Limits on the freedom of speech of NITC’s
Mr Kerem OKTEM, Professor, University of Graz, Austria
Discussion
To address problem of urban violence, the different stakeholders involved in the
prevention and fight against this phenomenon might be tempted to impose
restrictions in the field of NITC’s. The discussion will aim to consider reasonable and
proportionate restrictions balanced with fundamental freedoms.
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
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11.45-12.00
CLOSING SESSION
 Conclusions of the Conference
Mr Carlo CHIAROMONTE, Head of the Criminal Law Division, Secretary to
the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)
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