Programme

Programme of the 1st Congress of the International Mukwege Chair • 13-14-15 november 2019

Wednesday, November 13th

Opening ceremony and “Jambo” Party

• 15:00 to 18:00 – Campus du Sart-Tilman, Liège
  
  • Opening by Professor Véronique De Keyser, Extraordinary Professor Emeritus (ULiège),
    President of the Scientific Committee of the Mukwege Chair
  • Welcome message from Professor Pierre Wolper, Rector (ULiège)
  • Speech by Virginia Gamba de Potgieter, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General
  • Video intervention by David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament
  • Opening speech by Doctor Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Honorary President of the Mukwege Chair
  • Conference by Professor Françoise Tulkens, Professor Emeritus (UCLouvain),
    Former Judge at the European Court of human rights of Strasbourg, Former President of the King Baudouin Foundation and member of the Scientific Committee of the Mukwege Chair about : “Children’s rights and the violence of war“
  • Concluding intervention by Sandie Blanchet, Director of the UNICEF Office for Relations with the EU Institutions
  • Acknowledgements by Adélaïde Blavier, Professor (ULiège), Director of the Centre of Expertise in Psychotrauma and Forensic Psychology and Véronique De Keyser
• From 20:00 – Cité Miroir, Liège
  
  • “Jambo” Party (welcome evening) – charity evening in support of the program Les Enfants de Panzi (Panzi Foundation)

Thursday, November 14th and Friday, November 15th

Scientific Congress

Campus Centre-Ville, Liège

Thursday, November 14th

• 8:30-12:30 – Medical care (pillar 1)
  Keynote adress from Prof. Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Prof. Guy-Bernard Cadière (ULB, Belgium) :
  Title : “The surgical reconstruction of  child survivors of sexual violence”
• 14:00-18:00 – Psychological care (pillar 2)
  Keynote adress from Dr. Muriel Salmona, President of the Association ‘Mémoire traumatique et Victimologie’ and Prof. Véronique De Keyser (ULiège, Belgium) :
  Title : “What will these children remember?”
• 20:00 – Gala Dinner in the prestigious Palais des Princes-Évêques of Liège

Friday, November 15th

• 8:30-12:30 – Social and economic rehabilitation (pillar 3)
  Keynote adress from Prof. Germaine Furaha (Université Évangélique en Afrique) and Prof. PHD. Jean-Benoit Falisse (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
• 14:00-18:00 – Legal care (pillar 4)
  Keynote adress from Prof. Bérangère Taxil (Université d’Angers, France)