International multidisciplinary symposium at the Picardie Jules Verne University (UPJV) – Scientific director : Marjorie Beulay
“Le Sahara occidental – Actualités d’une question ancienne” (27 et 28 mai 2019)
At Logis du Roy in Amiens
• Monday, May 27th, 2019
Opening adress
- Lucie Delabie (Professor of Public Law and Director of the UFR of Law and Political Science – Picardie Jules Verne University)
Introductory remarks
- Marjorie Beulay (MCF in public law Picardie Jules Verne University)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=DGXX3WKM7ADN
Part One – What territory for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant: Lucie Delabie (Associate Professor of Public Law and Director of the UFR of Law and Political Science – Picardie Jules Verne University)
- Historical approach of the territory, Pierre Vermeren (Professor of History – Paris I University – Panthéon Sorbonne)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=K5BU1S6NS7N1
- Colonial approach of the territory, Carlos Ruiz Miguel (Professor of Law – Santiago de Compostela University ; member of CESO and OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=RU9XR45RN6W7
- Moroccan Approach of the territory, Yahia Zoubir (Professor of International Relations – Kedge Business School ; member of OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=4XYXURSHYSNO
- Economic interest of the Western Sahara territory, Philippe Leclercq (for APSO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=AGY2258UUHSR
- Legal approach of the concept of territory, Thibaut Fleury Graff (Associate Professor of Public Law – Versailles Saint Quentin University).
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=W2H6Y66GNH82
Second part – Which government for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant – Céline Husson-Rochcongar (Lecturer in public law HDR – Picardie Jules Verne University).
- International and constitutional cross-legal approach of the concept of government, Thibaud Mulier (Lecturer in public law at the Paris Nanterre University)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=83G9RG16O9D7
- Practical approach of Western Sahara’s Representation, S.E. Oubi Bouchraya (Polisario Front Representative in France) ;
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=ND17KS3B5MAR
- Western Sahara in a Maghrebine context, Khadija Mohsen-Finan (Political scientist, teacher-researcher at the Paris I University – Panthéon Sorbonne) ;
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=26DNWX1HGG36
- The effects in France of the RASD’s actions and decisions, François Mailhé (Associate Professor of Private Law – Picardie Jules Verne University)
• Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
Third part – What population for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant : Marjorie Beulay (Lecturer in Public Law at the Picardie Jules Verne University)
Manifestation of Sahrawi belonging
- Populations in Western Sahara throughout History, Francesco Correale (Historian – CNRS, UMR 7324 CITERES, Tours)
- The concept of Sahrawi “nationality”, Hélène Raspail (Lecturer in Public Law – Le Mans University)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=O817D14ODS3R
- The social changes affecting an exiled population, Alice Wilson (Lecturer in Anthropology – University of Sussex)
A displaced population
- The stakes of documenting a moving population, Sébastien Boulay et Camille Tanné (Lecturer in Anthropology and Master’s student – Paris Descartes University and members of OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=9D5AM35SMG7M
- Humanitarian stakes of action in Sahrawi camps, Virginia Mura (Former advocacy officer in the Tindouf camps – OXFAM)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=5AGMMS2KR2S9
- Photographing the camps, Fethi Sahraoui (Photographer – 2017 Winner of the Friends of IMA Prize for Contemporary Creation)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=39DH285A7HGN
Panel discussion : What role for the Saharawi diaspora and its supporters?
Chair/Discussant : Dominique Connan (Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université Picardie Jules Verne)
- Acting for the Sahrawi diaspora, Philippe Leclercq (Co-president of the Association of Solidarity with the Saharawi People of Lorraine)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=KX8WHKMS722H
- Civil society action with the European institutions, El Mahjoub Hussein Emhammad Mleiha (Coordinator of Saharawi civil society action and member of WSRW) – in English
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=XRB5YR9U7UNN
- A refugee population, testimony of Omar Laaouissid – in Arabic with translation
- The defense of Sahrawi prisonners, Me Olfa Ouled (Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=S9M54N9K4X99
Fourth part – What role for international organisations in relation to Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant : Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
- The Sahrawi question at the United Nations, Francesco Bastagli (Head of Mission in EUBAM and Former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO) ;
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=76B4O2BOSODM
- The Sahrawi question at the African Union, Makane Moïse Mbengue (Professor of Law at the Geneva University)
- The role of the European Union, Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=O3S7NRY5U6BS
- The representation of the Sahrawi people before the CJUE, Me Gilles Devers (Lawyer for the Polisario Front before the Court of Justice)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=7YM3MH2XG22O
Panel discussion: The European Union and Western Sahara, what relations to come?
Chair/Discussant : Rémy Hernu (Associate Professor of Public Law at the Université Picardie Jules Verne)
- The European Commission’s position in the Court’s dispute, Fernando Castillo de la Torre (Legal Adviser at the European Commission)
- Balances of power and stakes in the European Parliament, Raphaël Fisera (Political Adviser to the European Parliamentary Group Les Verts/Alliance Libre Européenne)
- Critical representation of the new free-trade agreement Eu-Morocco, Manuel Devers (Polisario Front Council before the EUJC)
- Quelles conséquences pour les entreprises ?, Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
• General conclusions
- Geneviève Bastid-Burdeau (Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne Law School, Member of the Institute of International Law and of the Curatorium of the Academy of International Law in La Haye)
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